Bücher der Reihe Vic Warshawski / V. I. Warshawski

Der erste Einsatz für Powerfrau Vic Warshawski.Ein Bilderbuchfall für Privatdetektivin Vic Warshawski: ein mysteriöser Klient, ein spurlos verschwundes Mädchen und ein toter Student am Küchentisch. Die Drahtzieher des gigantisch angelegten Versicherungsbetrugs sitzen in den Chefetagen mächtiger Konzerne. Und sie verstehen keinen Spaß, als Vic sich in ihre lukrativen, aber schmutzigen Geschäfte einmischt. Aber Vic ist nun einmal nicht so leicht aufs Kreuz zu legen.

Before there was Lisbeth Salander, before there was Stephanie Plum, there was V.I. Warshawski.Sara Paretsky takes her legendary hero?Victoria Iphigenia by birth, V.I. by profession, and Vic to her friends?on her first case out of Chicago, when the hunt for a vanished film student and a faded Hollywood star leads her to Kansas. Accompanied by her dog, V.I. tracks the pair through a university town, across fields dotted by Cold War-era missile silos . . . and into a past riven by long-simmering racial tensions. She hopes her search will yield the key to the mysteries of the present but every answer V.I. finds unveils another puzzling question?and leads to more dead bodies. Suspenseful and provocative, witty and intelligent, Fallout finds both Sara Paretsky and V.I. Warshawski working at the height of their abilities.

"Readers can find comfort in the dedication V.I. gives the cries for help she hears from friends, neighbors, and strangers... Very few series authors deliver as masterfully as Sara Paretsky." -- San Francisco Book ReviewLegendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a nefarious conspiracy preying on Chicago's weak and vulnerable, in this thrilling novel from New York Times bestseller Sara ParetskyOn her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski's dogs lead her on a mad chase that ends when they discover a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The girl only regains consciousness long enough to utter one enigmatic word. V.I. helps bring her to a hospital, but not long after, she vanishes before anyone can discover her identity. As V.I. attempts to find her, the detective uncovers an ugly consortium of Chicago powerbrokers and mobsters who are prepared to kill the girl. And now V.I.'s own life is in jeopardy as well.Told against the backdrop of a city emerging from its pandemic lockdown, Overboard lays bare the dark secrets and corruption buried in Chicago's neighborhoods in a masterly fashion.