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  • Body Work: A V. I. Warshawski Novel

  • V. I. Warshawski, Book 14
  • Written by: Sara Paretsky
  • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
  • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins

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Body Work: A V. I. Warshawski Novel

Written by: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
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Publisher's Summary

“Doctors take days off — why not P.I.s?” V.I. Warshawski demands. But when America’s hardest-working private eye goes clubbing, a stranger is shot and dies in her arms.

V.I. has been visiting Club Gouge, Chicago’s edgiest nightspot, 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 a menacing off-duty cop to Ukrainian mobsters and Iraq war vets - and V.I.’s impetuous cousin, Petra. A tormented young painter shows up, too, and the intricate designs she creates on the Body Artist drive one of the vets into a violent rage.

When the painter is shot, the cops figure it’s an easy collar: PTSD vet goes off the rails, stalks then kills young woman. But the vet’s family hires V.I. to clear his name, and the detective uncovers a chain of ugly truths that stretches all the way from Iraq to Chicago’s South Side.

©2010 Sara Paretsky (P)2010 Brilliance Audio

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“The thing about Sara Paretsky is, she’s tough—not because she observes the bone-breaker conventions of the private-eye genre but because she doesn’t flinch from examining old social injustices others might find too shameful (and too painful) to dig up.” ( The New York Times Book Review)

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