The audacious new V. I. Warshawski novel from the New York Times-bestselling authorDoctors take days off--why not PIs? V.I. Warshawski demands. But when Americas hardest-working private eye goes clubbing, a stranger is shot and dies in her arms.V.I. has been visiting Club Gouge, Chicagos edgiest nightspot, where a woman known as the Body Artist turns her naked body into a canvas for the audience to paint on.The show attracts all kinds of people, from a menacing off-duty cop to Ukrainian mobsters and Iraq war vets--and V.I.s impetuous cousin, Petra. A tormented young painter shows up, too, and the intricate designs she creates on the Body Artist drives on of the vets into a violent rage.When the painter is shot, the cops figure its an easy collar--PTSD vet goes off the rails, stalks then kills young woman.
