Hired to track down a man who has been missing for forty years, V.I. Warshawski inadvertently unearths old skeletons from Chicago's history and her own family, a situation marked by a young cousin she has never met and the untimely death of a nun.
Chicago private investigator V. I. Warshawski plunges into the darkest and most emotionally shattering case of her career when she tries to unravel the mystery of a battered and discarded woman she finds lying in the street.
Chicago private investigator V. I. Warshawski plunges into the darkest and most emotionally shattering case of her career when she tries to unravel the mystery of a battered and discarded woman she finds lying in the street.
Chicago detective V. I. Warshawski investigates the murder of an African-American reporter and walks into a web of sex, politics, corruption, and secrecy spanning fifty years--from the McCarthy era to the Patriot Act--that could ultimately kill her.
Detective V.I. Warshawski struggles to help her friend keep her home and tries to investigate the disappearance of her other neighbor's longtime friend.
Female detective "Vic" Warshawski suspects malpractice when a close friend dies in a hospital emergency room. Unfortunately her investigations seems to ignite a chain of nasty reactions.
Private investigator V.I. Warshawski agrees to help her friend uncover the secret his family is hiding from him, but as V.I. learns more about the past, the terror of the Holocaust comes back to haunt her.
V.I. Warshawski agrees to take over the coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, and through one of her players, V.I. is drawn into a mystery surrounding the towns flag-manufacturing plant.
