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1987., Adult, William Morrow Call No: NEW MYS Fic Par Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Consuelo Alvarado is 16, diabetic, pregnant, and the daughter of V.I.'s friend. When the baby arrives prematurely, both mother and daughter die in the hospital. Suspecting malpractice, V.I. begins an investigation that leads her to a cold-blooded coverup.
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-- Bodyworkc2010., Adult, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: MYS Fic Par Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: V.I. Warshawski mysteries Volume: 14Summary Note: A shooting in Chicago is nothing new, certainly not to V.I., who is hired by a veteran's family to clear his name after his arrest for the murder of a performer known as the Body Artist. As V.I. seeks answers, her investigation will take her from the North Side of Chicago to the far reaches of the Gulf War.
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-- Break down.c2012., G. P. Putnam's sons Call No: MYS Fic Par Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When the teenage daughters of some of Chicago's most influential families discover the body of a ritually murdered victim, investigator Warshawski explores theories that the killing is linked to a hostile media campaign against a senatorial candidate or a wealthy patriarch's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania.
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c2015., Adult, G. P. Putnam's sons Call No: MYS Fic Par Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: V.I. Warshawski novel Volume: 17Summary Note: No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few she'd be happy to avoid. High on that list is tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet that's precisely what she ends up doing when she responds to Frank Guzzo's plea for help. For six stormy weeks back in high school, V.I. thought she was in love with Frank. He broke up with her, she went off to college, he started driving trucks for Bagby Haulage. She forgot about him until the day his mother was convicted of bludgeoning his kid sister, Annie, to death. Stella Guzzo was an angry, uncooperative prisoner and did a full twenty-five years for her daughter's murder. Newly released from prison, Stella is looking for exoneration, so Frank asks V.I. for help. V.I. doesn't want to get involved. Stella hated the Warshawskis, in particular V.I.'s adored mother, Gabriella. But life has been hard on Frank and on V.I.'s other childhood friends, still stuck on the hardscrabble streets around the dead steel mills, and V.I. agrees to ask a few questions. Those questions lead her straight into the vipers' nest of Illinois politics she's wanted to avoid. When V.I. takes a beating at a youth meeting in her old hood, her main question becomes whether she will live long enough to find answers.
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c2013., Adult, G. P. Putnam's sons Call No: MYS Fic Par Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: V.I. Warshawski mysteries Volume: 16Summary Note: "V.I. Warshawski's closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel, who lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Lotty escaped to London in 1939 on the Kindertransport with a childhood playmate, Kitty Saginor Binder. When Kitty's daughter finds her life is in danger, she calls Lotty, who, in turn, summons V.I. to help. The daughter's troubles turn out to be just the tip of an iceberg of lies, secrets, and silence, whose origins go back to the mad competition among America, Germany, Japan and England to develop the first atomic bomb. The secrets are old, but the people who continue to guard them today will not let go of them without a fight."--Publisher.
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c2005., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: MYS Fic Par Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes.
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2009., G. P. Putnams Sons Call No: MYS Fic Par Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When V. I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who's been missing for four decades, a search that she figured would be futile becomes lethal. Afraid to learn that her adored father might have been a bent cop working for the Chicago P.D., V. I. takes the investigation all the way to its frightening end.
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-- Mystery Writers of America presents Ice cold :By Deaver, Jeffery Benson, Raymond, 1955- Finder, Joseph Lescroart, John T Lynds, Gayle Sheldon, John C Paretsky, Sara Alexander, Gary, 1941- Cook, Alan L DuBois, Brendan Vincent, Benjamin Lief, Katia, 1959- Doudera, Vicki, 1961- Stone, Jonathan, 1956- Vernon, Gigi Wallace, Joseph Mangeot, Robert Parker, T. Jefferson Lippman, Laura, 1959- Neville, Caterine Janc2014., Adult, Grand Central Publishing Call No: MYS Fic Ice Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Bestselling authors Jeffery Deaver and Raymond Benson--the only American writers to be commissioned to pen official James Bond novels--have joined forces to bring us twenty masterful tales of paranoia, espionage, and psychological drama. Nuclear brinksmanship. Psychological warfare. Spies, double agents, femme fatales, and dead drops. The Cold War--a terrifying time when nuclear war between the world''s two superpowers was an ever-present threat, an all-too-real possibility that could be set off at the touch of a button--provides a chilling backdrop to this collection of all-new short stories from today''s most celebrated mystery writers.
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2022., HarperCollins Call No: MYS Fic Par Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: V.I. Warshawki Volume: 21Summary Note: On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski’s dogs lead her on a mad chase that ends when they discover a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The girl only regains consciousness long enough to utter one enigmatic word. V.I. helps bring her to a hospital, but not long after, she vanishes before anyone can discover her identity. As V.I. attempts to find her, the detective uncovers an ugly consortium of Chicago powerbrokers and mobsters who are prepared to kill the girl. And now V.I.’s own life is in jeopardy as well. Told against the backdrop of a city emerging from its pandemic lockdown, Double Dirty lays bare the dark secrets and corruption buried in Chicago’s neighborhoods.
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2002, c2001., Dell Pub. Call No: Fic Par Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: While investigating a case of insurance fraud perpetrated on a poor family from Chicago's South Side, private detective V.I. Washawski is called in to assist her dear friend and mentor, Dr. Lotty Hershel, who is faced with the appearance of a mysterious man who may have a terrifying link to Lotty's past and dangerous implications for her present.
