Fromme Wuensche - Blood Shot - V.I. Warshawski, Bk 5 - German Edition Author:Sara Paretsky Fromme Wuensche: Der heikle Auftrag kommt ausgerechnet von Vic Warshawskis ungeliebter Tante Rosa, die Schatzmeisterin in einem Chicagoer Kloster ist: Aktien im Wert von fuenf Millionen Dollar sollen Faelschungen sein. Fuer die hartgesottene Privatdetektivin steht bald fest, dass die Schuldigen in diesem Wirtschaftskrimi nicht nur bei der Mafia ... more »und den Politikern der Stadt zu finden sind, sondern in den hoechsten kirchlichen Kreisen.
A visit to a childhood friend in South Chicago, Caroline Djiak, ends with Warshawski agreeing to look for the father Caroline never knew and whom neither her mother Louisa, although she's dying, or maternal grandparents will name. Almost at once, however, Caroline begs the detective to stop the search. She is badly frightened when a co-worker in a neighboring recycling plant is murdered, but Warshawski won't quit the investigation now that she suspects criminals have a bigger motive for killing than keeping the father's identify secret. The decision to fight on entangles V. I. with the powerful owner of a chemical company and his minions a venal doctor who falsifies employee records, South Chicago's corrupt alderman, a gangster profiteer with a stranglehold on the city's trash collections and thugs hired to kill "the snoop."« less