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In Total Recall, Sara Paretsky brings together several disparate plots in one gripping story. This powerfully suspenseful novel confronts the machinations of a vast and corrupt industry that trades on the victims of Nazi terrorism; the strange and dubious phenomenon of "recovered memory;" and a personal story that brings V. I. Warshawski into the long-buried past of her dearest friend and mentor, Dr. Lotty Herschel.

Racine Avenue is going upscale — bad news for hand-to-mouth residents like V. I. Warshawski. As tax bills skyrocket, newcomers pressure old inhabitants into fixing up their homes or moving out. To the yuppies on the block the worst eyesore belongs to old Hattie Frizell, whose yard is “returning to native prairie, complete with hubcaps.” Their block club wants her and her five dogs gone.V. I. and Hattie have a relationship of sorts: one of those five dogs gave V. I.’s dog Peppy an unwelcome litter.

This exciting collaborative by the Private Eye Writers of America and Sisters in Crime contains short stories by well-known mystery writers including Sara Paretsky and Sue Grafton. The stories are presented in pairs, each linked to the other by a common theme or topic.

Don't toss out the cake and candles just yet. Philip Roth, who, among other notable achievements, changed the way Americans laugh about masturbation, celebrates his birthday on March 19th. Check out: I Married a Communist and Operation Shylock.

In 1939, Dr. Lotty Herschel, V. I. Warshawki’s closest friend in Chicago, escaped the Holocaust in Vienna with her childhood playmate, Kitty Saginor Binder. Though the two drifted and animosities grew between them over the years, when Kitty’s daughter finds her life in danger, she turns to Lotty for help. In turn, Lotty summons V. I. to take the case.

Chicago’s Club Gouge attracts an eclectic audience, from bohemian types to Ukranian mobsters to young men just back from the war. And tonight, V.I. Warshawski is in the crowd too. The edgy stage show stars The Body Artist, who invites audience members to draw on her naked flesh. But things get a lot edgier when a woman sketches a picture on the Body Artist—and one of the veterans flies into a drunken rage. Next thing V.I. knows, she’s cradling the woman’s dying body in an alley, and a PTSD-stricken soldier is presumed guilty.

When a group of Chicago tweens holds a ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse—stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. V.I. Warshawski arrives on the scene to escort the girls home—but protecting them places her at the tangled center of the investigation. And the girls include daughters of some of Chicago’s most powerful families: the grandfather of one, Chaim Salanter, is among the world’s wealthiest men; the mother of another, Sophy Durango, is running for the United States Senate.

En hjemløs i Chicagos gader ser i en åbenbaring Jomfru Marias ansigt vædet med tårer af blod på en garagemur under et luksushotel. Og inden længe valfarter andre udstødte kvinder til muren. Men hotellet vil have fjernet de hjemløse, der virker provokerende på gæsterne, og beder hotellets advokat, Harriet Stonds løse problemet.

"Heksejagt" er den 11. bog om V.I. Warshawski. I kølvandet på 11. september påtager V.I. Warshawski sig en opgave for en tidligere klient. Hun skal overvåge et gammelt familielandsted, der står tomt, men en nat overrasker hun en ubuden gæst og styrter i guldfiskebassinet. Da hun griber ud efter noget at holde fast i, lukker hendes fingre sig om en iskold hånd. Et lig er dukket op til overfladen. Opdagelsen hvirvler V.I. ind i to store Chicago-familiers historier, hvor der tegner sig et kompliceret spil om blod, sex, penge, skandaler – og mord.

"Drøje tider" er den 9. bog om V.I. Warshawski. Et verdensomspændende multimedieforetagende, Global Entertainment, har erhvervet Chicago-avisen, The Herald-Star, og tvunget avisens medarbejdere til det ene kompromis efter det andet for at bevare deres job. Det lykkes reporteren, Murray Ryerson, V.I. Warshawskys gode ven og rival gennem længere tid, at skabe sig en karriere som vært for et tv-show på Globals netværk. På vej hjem fra en reception for at fejre Murrays debut som skærmtrold, er V.I. millimeter fra at køre over en kvinde, der ligger på gaden.

"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.

In an instant, the lives of two women collide. One was behind the wheels of a Trans Am she liked to drive too fast. The other was lying in the road, dying an agonizing death. When Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski gets out of her car to look at the woman she almost hit, she begins a long, harrowing descent into a world of shadowy secrets and tangled lives — and into the grimmest heart of her city.

Feast on this delectable collection of "whodunits" from some of the mystery world's most diabolical chefs. Whet your appetite with Sara Paretsky's "Skin Deep," in which fan-favorite Chicago private investigator, V.I. "Vic" Warshawski, takes on a chi-chi salon after one of its clients turns up dead.

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

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.

In sports, announcers can have a lot of power. In this story lies a lesson in how to use that power.

Boom-Boom Warshawski är en av Amerikas framtida stjärnor inom ishockey. Men detta hopp avbryts tvärt av en plötslig skada. För att få tiden att gå, och att slippa tänka på sitt öde, ger han sig in i affärslivets turbulens. När han en dag hittas död, dränkt i hamnens smutsiga vatten, tror hans kusin privatdetektiven VI Warshawski inte ett dugg på den officiella förklaringen att han tagit sitt liv av depression. Det var inte sån han var. Hon börjar nysta i fallet, och det blir snart uppenbart för henne att Boom-Boom var något på spåren, en stor konspiration som har med sjöfartshandeln att göra.

Sara Paretsky's genius made Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski a household name. Now the New York Times bestselling author explores an unseen corner of the city she loves. In Ghost Country she has written a parable for the millennium, a powerful, haunting novel of magic and miracles, of four troubled people who meet beneath Chicago's shadowy streets - and of the woman whose mysterious appearance changes all of their lives forever.

Crime, thriller, and noir fans will delight in this fourth volume of The Greatest Mysteries of All Time, an exciting series featuring short fiction by legendary writers, past and present. From Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, and Georges Simenon to Lawrence Block and Sara Paretsky, this unique collection—compiled and edited by multi-award-winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler—is a captivating mixture of mystery and suspense.

Vic bliver hyret af en mand, der kalder sig John Thayer. Thayers søn, Peter, har en kaereste, der på mystisk vis er forsvundet. Sagen virker ligetil, men den skal vise sig at blive både kompliceret og dødbringende, da Vic, i stedet for at finde den unge pige, finder liget af Peter. Pludselig er John Thayer over alle bjerge - men hvem var han egentlig? I forsøget på at opspore sin forsvundne klient og finde svar bliver Vic viklet ind i et ondt og bedragerisk spil.