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Tunnel Visionby Paretsky, Sara
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Book DescriptionNew York, New York, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 1994. Red boards with black spine and gilt lettering; inscribed with previous owner's initials; no other marks; spine is cocked and cracked at page 104, but still solid; edges os spine are bumped; jacket has multiple chips and cracksand shows some rubbing. Hard Cover. Good to Fair/Good to Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book summaryWhen the body of Deirdre Messenger, wife of a prominent attorney, appears on private detective Vic Warshawski's desk, the cops have a lot of questions. Vic's investigation leads her along a path of slickly concealed domestic abuse and high-level corruption.Media Reviews"V. I. Warshawski remains an appealing character, a soft-boiled detective who ages with time, who bruises when punched and who still misses her mother....[B]est of all, she gets mad when pushed around or patronized, and goes to work determined to get even." -- New York Times "The best of Sara Paretsky's mystery novels....[A]ll of Warshawski's feminist and liberal proclivities are in full boil, propelling a complex and action-filled plot." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Publisher NotesStubbornness has landed private eye V.I. Warshawski in big trouble at her Chicago office. With her grand old Loop building set to be razed, shes become a hold-out tenant amid frayed wiring and scary, empty corridors. Then she finds a homeless woman with three kids in the basement, and before she can rescue them, they disappear. Worst of all, shes been implicated in a murder--after the body of Deirdre Messenger, a prominent lawyers wife, turns up sprawled across her desk.V.I., who had volunteered with Deirdre at a womens shelter, suspects her death is linked to a case of upper-class domestic abuse so slickly concealed that the police refuse to believe it. Increasingly at odds with the cops, V.I. is blindly plunging ahead after the truth. And her path may lead to corruption at the highest levels.or deep into the abandoned tunnels beneath Chicagos streets, where secrets are hiding in the dark like a childs--or V.I.'s--worst nightmare. Other Recommended Books
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