From Barnes & NobleVictoria Iphigenia Warshawski has a gold-plate name that she doesn't use and a gritty street sense that makes her a modestly successful Chicago private investigator. On her latest Windy City assignment, V.I. (as she's universally known) learns that even a routine four-decade-old missing person case can escalate into matters much more immediate, deadly, and personal. A powerful urban thriller with an unforgettable female main character.
Marilyn StasioThe thing about Sara Paretsky is, she's tough—not because she observes the bone-breaker conventions of the private-eye genre but because she doesn't flinch from examining old social injustices others might find too shameful (and too painful) to dig up…While her themes here are familiar…she gives them a personal spin by drawing on her own experiences as a community organizer during the summer of 1966 and sharing them with a large cast of voluble and opinionated characters, whose memories are as raw as her own.
