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Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2005
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Summary: This powerfully suspenseful novel confronts the machinations of a vast and corrupt industry that trades on the victims of Nazi terrorism, the strange and dubious phenomenon of "recovered memory", and a personal story that brings V.I. Warshawski into the long-buried past of her dearest friend and mentor, Dr. Lotty Herschel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParetsky, Sara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PARParetsky, Sara
Summary: This is a story of secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations-secrets political, social, sexual, financial: all of them with the power to kill. Eager for something physical to do in the spirit-exhausting wake of 9/11, V.I. accepts a request from an old client to check up on an empty family mansion; subsequently surprises an intruder in the dark; and, giving chase, topples into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParetsky, Sara
Summary: In a city emerging from its pandemic lockdown, detective V.I. Warshawski must elude Chicago powerbrokers and mobsters as she tries to find a missing girl who is the key witness to a nefarious conspiracy, which makes Warshawski a target as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC PARParetsky, Sara
Summary: On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski is led by her dogs 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC PARParetsky, Sara.
Summary: Private eye V.I. Warshawski, inspecting an empty house as part of a routine case, discovers an intruder and a forty-year-old corpse. Each of these lead her in turn to a McCarthy-era scandal and a modern-era terrorist investigation, both of which pit her against adversaries who will do anything to keep their secrets buried.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARParetsky, Sara.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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Summary: Tells the story of three Chicagoans--a disturbed young woman, an alcoholic opera singer, and an idealistic psychiatrist--whose lives are changed by a mysterious woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1998
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Summary: When V.I. Warshawski returns to her Chicago office, she finds her once tidy work space in ruins. Ripped documents, upended drawers, and framed pictures have been strewn about. The most chilling find, though, is a bracelet belonging to Warshawki's cousin, Petra. With Petra missing, the cops spring into action, labeling the episode as kidnapping, assault, and aggravated burglary. As they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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Summary: Lotty was a child of nine when she came to England in 1939 as a refugee from Austria. Having lost her entire family to the Nazi terror, she grew up and completed her medical training in London - and there fell in love with a fellow refugee. She ended the affair when she discovered she was pregnant and bore the child in secrecy, giving it up for adoption. Now, that long-held secret may be exposed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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Summary: "Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a nefarious conspiracy preying on Chicago's weak and vulnerable, in this thrilling novel from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky. On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski is led by her dogs on a mad chase that ends when they discover a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The girl only regains...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski knows from the start that Consuelo Alvarado's baby is going to be trouble. Consuelo is sixteen, a diabetic, and the daughter of a friend. When she goes into labor too early, even V.I.'s wild drive to get her to the hospital can't save either Consuelo or her child. Soon V.I. is investigating possible malpractice at the emergency room, and falling for a doctor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARParetsky, Sara.
Summary: 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. For V.I. Warshawski, the questions multiply faster than the answers. As V.I. struggles for answers, she finds herself fighting enemies who are all too human.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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Summary: "New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky's brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Paretsky 2013Paretsky, Sara.
Summary: America's top private eye is tossed into a dangerous adventure when a seemingly straightforward assignment becomes complicated and deadly. Hired by a man who calls himself John Thayer, V.I.'s assignment is to find Thayer's son Peter's missing girlfriend. But when V.I. finds young Peter's dead body instead, her client disappears. Her efforts to track down her client and learn his true identity...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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Summary: Chicago's legendary detective, V. I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARParetsky, Sara.
Summary: V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to her old neighborhood, but she always keeps a promise. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. When V.I. starts probing into the past, she not only finds out where all the bodies are buried, she stumbles onto a very new corpse. Now she's stirring up a deadly mix...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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Summary: Returning to her South Side alma mater for a reunion, private detective V.I. Warshawski becomes involved in the search for a former classmate's long-lost father, a quest that uncovers a web of corruption, danger, and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Publishing Co. 1988
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Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Paretsky 2015Paretsky, Sara.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ImPress Mystery 2004
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Summary: PI V. I. Warshawski of Chicago experiences the harrowing world of women's prisons when she is incarcerated after being falsely arrested. It happens while she is probing the murder of an illegal immigrant.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1999