Brush Back: V.I. Warshawski Novel, cartea 17
Autor Sara Paretskyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iun 2016
V.I. Warshawski finds herself in a dangerous web of politics in the latest mystery from the "New York Times "bestselling author of "Critical Mass."
No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but she d happily avoid tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet that s what she ends up doing when she responds to a plea for help from an old high school flame, Frank Guzzo.
Frank s mother Stella was convicted of killing his kid sister, but now that she s out of prison, she s looking for exoneration. Even though the Warshawskis and Stella never got along, V. I. agrees to make a few inquiries after she sees how hard life has been on Frank and her other childhood friends.
Only, that small favor leads her straight into the vipers nest of Illinois politics and soon her main question isn t about Stella s case but whether or not she ll make it out of this investigation alive...
Includes a Bonus Short Story
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780451477156
ISBN-10: 0451477154
Pagini: 544
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Signet
Seriile Signet, V.I. Warshawski Novel
ISBN-10: 0451477154
Pagini: 544
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Signet
Seriile Signet, V.I. Warshawski Novel
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The seventeenth V.I. Warshawski thriller from one of America's greatest female crime writers.
Twenty-five years ago, Stella Guzzo beat her daughter to death and then walked up the street to play bingo at her parish church.
Chicago detective V.I. Warshawski grew up with the Guzzo family. She dated Frank Guzzo when they were teens and knew Stella's murderous rages first-hand, so she was relieved when a judge sent Stella to prison for a long stretch.
V.I. and Frank went their different ways, V.I. to university and law school, Frank to marriage, children, and a job as a truck driver. 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 realizes how hard life has been for Frank, stuck in the gang-ridden streets around Chicago's dead steel mills, and she doesn't feel able to say no.
V.I. starts asking questions, but the answers leave her puzzled. Was Stella's daughter Annie the ardent girl V.I. remembers, looking for a college education as a way out of South Chicago? Or was she a calculating, amoral person, as Stella claims? And what about the lawyers Annie worked for - why did they insist on representing Stella in her murder trial?
V.I.'s inquiries put her smack in the path of a notorious Mob enforcer. When she gets jumped in her old 'hood, her biggest question becomes whether she will live long enough to find the answers.
The seventeenth V.I. Warshawski thriller from one of America's greatest female crime writers.
Twenty-five years ago, Stella Guzzo beat her daughter to death and then walked up the street to play bingo at her parish church.
Chicago detective V.I. Warshawski grew up with the Guzzo family. She dated Frank Guzzo when they were teens and knew Stella's murderous rages first-hand, so she was relieved when a judge sent Stella to prison for a long stretch.
V.I. and Frank went their different ways, V.I. to university and law school, Frank to marriage, children, and a job as a truck driver. 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 realizes how hard life has been for Frank, stuck in the gang-ridden streets around Chicago's dead steel mills, and she doesn't feel able to say no.
V.I. starts asking questions, but the answers leave her puzzled. Was Stella's daughter Annie the ardent girl V.I. remembers, looking for a college education as a way out of South Chicago? Or was she a calculating, amoral person, as Stella claims? And what about the lawyers Annie worked for - why did they insist on representing Stella in her murder trial?
V.I.'s inquiries put her smack in the path of a notorious Mob enforcer. When she gets jumped in her old 'hood, her biggest question becomes whether she will live long enough to find the answers.
Recenzii
For six stormy weeks in high school, V.I. Warshawski thought she was in love with Frank Guzzo.
He broke up with her, she went off to college, he started driving trucks for a living. She forgot about him until the day his mother was arrested for bludgeoning his kid sister Annie to death.
Twenty-five years later, Stella is released and Frank comes to V. I., begging the private detective to help find grounds to exonerate his mother from a crime she claims she never committed.
V.I. doesn't want to get involved, but life has been hard on Frank. When V.I. agrees to ask a few questions, it's a painful journey to the past for her, to her old neighbourhood and the people she grew up with. And when she gets beaten up after attending a youth-group meeting in her old 'hood, V.I.'s main question becomes whether she will live long enough to find the answers.
[Praise]
'Sara Paretsky's V. I. Warshawski remains the most distinctive female private investigator in US crime fiction . . . immensely entertaining' Independent
'With the creation of V.I. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky did more than anyone to change the face of contemporary women's fiction' Express on Sunday
He broke up with her, she went off to college, he started driving trucks for a living. She forgot about him until the day his mother was arrested for bludgeoning his kid sister Annie to death.
Twenty-five years later, Stella is released and Frank comes to V. I., begging the private detective to help find grounds to exonerate his mother from a crime she claims she never committed.
V.I. doesn't want to get involved, but life has been hard on Frank. When V.I. agrees to ask a few questions, it's a painful journey to the past for her, to her old neighbourhood and the people she grew up with. And when she gets beaten up after attending a youth-group meeting in her old 'hood, V.I.'s main question becomes whether she will live long enough to find the answers.
[Praise]
'Sara Paretsky's V. I. Warshawski remains the most distinctive female private investigator in US crime fiction . . . immensely entertaining' Independent
'With the creation of V.I. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky did more than anyone to change the face of contemporary women's fiction' Express on Sunday