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When V. I. Warshawski, the hardest-working of private eyes, goes out one night, a stranger is shot and dies in her arms. V.I. has been visiting Club Gouge, 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 Ukrainian mobsters and Iraq war veterans. A tormented young painter shows up too, and the intricate designs she creates drive one of the soldiers into a violent rage.

When private eye V.I. Warshawski is called out to a derelict drug house in a rural town just south of Chicago, she discovers something she wasn't expecting: the mutilated corpse of a man, dumped in a cornfield. It is a discovery that throws V.I. into the fascinating world of physics and invention: a design that sparked the construction of the computer as we know it, the development of nuclear weapons, the wonder of Newton's prisms and a train of dramatic events that occurred in wartime Vienna.

One of the most popular female sleuths in modern crime fiction, Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski is a strong, smart, independent heroine in a male-dominated world. She tracks down corrupt businessmen, ruthless blackmailers and cold-blooded murderers - while trying not to get killed herself. Included in this collection are the first four best-selling V.I. Warshawski novels from Sara Paretsky - plus a short story featuring the hard-boiled PI, read by Buffy Davis.

Twenty-five years ago, Stella Guzzo beat her daughter to death and then walked up the street to play bingo at her church. V. I. Warshawski grew up with the Guzzo family. She dated Frank Guzzo when they were teens and knew Stella's murderous rages firsthand. She didn't think about the family again until the day Frank came to her office, wanting V. I. to help his mother with an exoneration claim. The detective wants no part of Stella Guzzo's world, but she doesn't feel able to say no.

On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski's dogs lead her on a mad chase that ends when they find 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 power brokers and mobsters who are prepared to kill the girl before VI can save her.

Mr. Marlow was hired to help with a loan shark, yet in reality, what was wanted from him had nothing to do with the loan.

The Grelliers and the Schapens: two families who have been farming in the Kaw River Valley for over 150 years, their lives connected through the generations by history and geography. Then Gina Haring, bringing with her the liberal air of the big city, moves into a dilapidated house near both farms. Gina has secrets, her own reasons for being in the Kansas countryside, and they're not necessarily what the people around her imagine.

Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world. 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. The girls include daughters of some of Chicago's most powerful families. For V.I. Warshawski, the questions multiply faster than the answers. Is the killing linked to a hostile media campaign against Sophy Durango?

The discovery of a destitute family in her office basement leads V.I. Warshawski to homeless charity Home Free. But the organisation's frosty reception gives V.I. cause for concern, especially when one of its board members is then found murdered, sprawled across her desk.... Taking on the case, V.I. uncovers a framework of domestic abuse and fraud which spreads across the whole of Chicago, as well as into the abandoned tunnels beneath the city streets - where more dark secrets have been buried....

The new VI Warshawski novel from the New York Times best-selling author pits acclaimed detective VI Warshawski against some of today's most powerful figures. Legendary sleuth VI Warshawski returns to the Windy City to save an old friend's nephew from a murder arrest. The case involves a stolen artifact that could implicate a shadowy network of international criminals. As VI investigates, the detective soon finds herself tangling with the Russian mob, ISIS backers and a shady network of stock scams and stolen art that stretches from Chicago to the East Indies and the Middle East.

Meisterin Sara Paretsky erzählt in dieser mit schillernden Gestalten bevölkerten Krimi-Oper auch von Verbrechen, die dem rechtsstaatlichen Radar entgehen.

In this spellbinding collection, Sara Paretsky showcases her extraordinary talents with 14 short stories, including one new V.I. story and seven other classics featuring the indomitable detective. In 'Miss Bianca' a young girl becomes involved in espionage when she befriends a mouse in a laboratory that is conducting dark experiments. Ten-year-old V.I. Warshawski appears in 'Wildcat', embarking on her very first investigation to save her father.

V.I. bor ikke mere i det fattige South Chicago, men kommer tilbage som traener for et skolebasketballteam på den high school, hun selv tidligere har gået på. Holdet består af utilpassede piger med alskens sociale problemer, nogle af dem teenagemødre. Isaer en pige, Josie Dorrado, tilskynder V.I. til at hjaelpe sin mor, der er ansat på en lille flagfabrik, som presses hårdt af en discountkaede.

To gamle, sorte søstre bestiller Chicago-detektiven Victoria I. Warshawski til at finde den enes søn, der har vaeret savnet i flere end 40 år. En tilsyneladende håbløs opgave, som V.I. alligevel påtager sig. Undervejs får hun rodet op i en masse af fortidens synder, gamle skeletter rasler ud af skabene og spor fører tilbage til de dramatiske raceuroligheder i 1966, hvor Martin Luther King blev skudt.

Vics kvarter er ved at blive overtaget af "yuppier", der med deres bidselsko og sorte mapper vil gøre området mere eksklusivt. Skatterne ryger i vejret og almindelige mennesker som Vic, der lever fra hånden til munden, presses til at følge med - eller pakke sammen og forlade denne del af byen. Vaerst går det dog ud over gamle Hattie Frizell og hendes fem hunde, der i yuppiernes øjne er bydelens vaerste skamplet.

En morgen kommer tante Elena til Vics dørtrin for bede om husly. Da tante Elenas hotel er braendt ned, accepterer Vic et kortvarigt ophold, og imens forsøger hun at finde et sted til tanten ved hjaelp af sine politiske kontakter. Da Vic bliver hyret til at opklare de mystiske omstaendigheder omkring hotelbranden, dukker liget af tantens unge ven op - og pludselig er tante Elena intet sted at finde.

Selvom Vic ikke er meget for det, tager hun tilbage til sit gamle nabolag i det sydlige Chicago for at deltage i sit gamle basketball-holds genforeningsfest. Arrangøren hedder Caroline, og hun har et problem, som hun gerne vil have Vic til at løse. Caroline har aldrig mødt sin far, og med en mor, der ligger for døden, er det ved at vaere sidste chance. Alt imens Vic søger tilbage i venindens fortid, bliver hun også konfronteret med sin egen historie.

V. I. Warshawski är en kvinnlig privatspanare i Chicago. Hon är varken förmögen eller särskilt populär, men hon är bra på det hon gör. När hon en dag får förfrågan att rädda en rik bankmans son från en socialistisk flickvän vill hon till en början tacka nej, men ekonomin tryter. Det som till en början verkade vara ett rutinmässigt uppdrag, visar sig dock snart bli mycket mer invecklat. Sonen hittas snart mördad och flickvännen är spårlöst försvunnen.

Atter er privatdetektiven Victoria I. Warshawski hovedperson i et skæbnedrama i højeste gear. En klassisk Paretsky-krimi med det hele. På en bar i Chicago lader en body artist sin nøgne krop dekorere af gæsterne, som siden kan downloade motiverne fra en hjemmeside. Showet tiltrækker alle slags mennesker - mere eller mindre lyssky. En frygtindgydende ex-politimand maler klodsede tal og koder, og Nadja, en uligevægtig kvinde, maler et symbol og et ansigt, der får Chad, en ung veteran fra Irak-krigen, til at gå bersærk.

"Intet glemt" er den 10. bog om V.I. Warshawski. For V.I. begynder sagen ved en konference i Chicago, hvor vrede demonstranter kræver udbetaling af Holocaust-midler. En ukendt mand rejser sig under konferencen og fortæller en forbløffende historie om en barndom, der blev ødelagt af Holocaust – en historie, der har rystende konsekvenser for Lotty Herschel, V.I.’s ven og mentor. Lotty tvinges til at huske sin barndom. Hun blev som niårig sammen med en lille gruppe jævnaldrende børn sendt fra Østrig til London lige inden nazisternes terror begyndte.