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2) Fire sale
Author
Publisher
Putnam Publishing Group
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
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.
3) Breakdown
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
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, and she finds herself fighting enemies who are all too human.
4) Brush back
Author
Series
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 17
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly agreeing to help when an old boyfriend asks her to exonerate his mother for the murder of his sister, V. I. Warshawski is forced to confront ugly politics and violent elements in her hometown.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
8) Hardball
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Private investigator V. I. Warshawski, having agreed to help find a man who has been missing for forty years, uncovers racially charged secrets from the 1960s, while also tracking down a cousin who went missing while in town to work on a political campaign.
10) Body work
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Chicago detective V. I. Warshawski, having witnessed an outburst by a Gulf War veteran at Club Gouge, where a naked performer was allowing patrons to write on her body, is called to investigate on behalf of the veteran when the person whose drawing upset him is shot to death outside the club.
11) Bitter medicine
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
12) Burn marks
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
V.I. Warshawski, a Chicago private eye, investigates the fire at SRO hotel. She looks deep into the construction business and Cook County politics.
13) Blood shot
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
V.I. Warshawski, private investigator, uncovers a network of corruption when she goes back to her old neighborhood in Chicago.
14) Guardian angel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective V.I. Warshawski struggles to help her friend keep her home and tries to investigate the disappearce of her other neighbor's longtime friend.
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