DescriptionSomeone knocking on the door at 3 a.m. is never good news. For V.I. Warshawski, the bad news arrives in the form of her wacky, unwelcome Aunt Elena. The fire that has just burned down a sleazy SRO hotel has brought her to V.I.'s doorstep. Uncovering an arsonist, and the secrets hidden behind Elena's boozy smile, will send V.I. into the seedy world of Chicago's homeless people...and into the Windy City's backroom deals and bedroom politics, where new schemers and old cronies team up to get V.I. off the case by hook, by crook, or by homicide.
DescriptionV.I. Warshawski's latest adventure takes her from the bank vaults of Chicago to the halls of Congress. When she attempts to help a homeless family she discovers living in the basement of her office building, she comes in contact with HOME FREE, a homeless advocates' group that just happens to be headed by her old college flame. All is not well within the organization, and when one of HOME FREE's board members is murdered in V.I.'s office, she has no choice but to take on the case. She finds a trail of abuse and fraud that pits her against the University of Chicago, the Chicago Board of Trade, and City Hall.
DescriptionWhen Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye cousin, the intrepid V.I. Warshawski, questions the accidental death report and rumors of suicide. Armed with a bottle of Black Label and a Smith & Wesson, V.I. follows a trail of violence and corruption to the center of the Windy City's powerful shipping industry. Dodging attempts on her life with characteristic grit and humor, V.I. wends her way through a maze of grain elevators and thousand-ton freighters, ruthless businessmen, and gorgeous ballerinas, to ferret out Boom Boom's killers before they take her out of the picture - permanently.
DescriptionWhat secrets hide behind the razzle-dazzle of the entertainment industry? V.I. Warshawski is about to find out. Her friend, reporter Murray Ryerson, has just landed a plum job as host of a Global Entertainment network television show. On her way home from the party celebrating the event, V.I. stops to help a woman lying in the street. Her Good Samaritan act exposes dark truths, and suddenly V.I. finds herself playing a game she can only win by staying alive. This is the ninth novel in Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski series.
