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Search - Sara Paretsky V. I. Warshawski Series: Books 15-17: Breakdown, Critical Mass, Brush Back

Sara Paretsky V I Warshawski Series Books 1517 Breakdown Critical Mass Brush Back
Author: Sara Paretsky

BREAKDOWN — Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world. When tweens in Chicago?s Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. The girls include daughters of some o... more »f Chicago?s most powerful families: the grandfather of one, Chaim Salanter, is among the world?s wealthiest men; the mother of another, Sophy Durango, is running for the United States Senate. For V. I. Warshawski, the questions multiply faster than the answers. Is the killing linked to a hostile media campaign against Sophy Durango? Or to Chaim Salanter?s childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania? As V.I. struggles to answer these questions, she finds herself fighting enemies who are no less terrifying for being all too human.CRITICAL MASS

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 without a fight.BRUSH BACK

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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ISBN-13: 9781536674309
ISBN-10: 1536674303
Publication Date: 2/24/2017
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