Pay dirt / Sara Paretsky.
By: Paretsky, Sara.
Publisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2024Description: 400 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781529354379 (hbk.) :; 1529354374 (hbk.) :; 9781529354386 (pbk).Subject(s): Warshawski, V. I., (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Women private investigators -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction | Crime | Crime | Crime & mystery fictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery stories.Summary: When a young woman named Sabrina disappears without a trace in Kansas, private investigator V.I. Warshawski knows she must act fast. But when she discovers Sabrina close to death in a drug house, the locals don't take kindly to her - and Sabrina's mother becomes suspicious. V.I. finds herself under the sharp gaze of the FBI - and the men running the county's opioid distribution. And when a dead body surfaces a few days later, V.I. is pitched headlong into a battle between the locals - with roots that date all the way back to the American Civil War. The war might be over, but its legacy remains - and V.I.'s survival depends on keeping one step ahead in a game she doesn't even know she's playing.Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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When a young woman named Sabrina disappears without a trace in Kansas, private investigator V.I. Warshawski knows she must act fast. But when she discovers Sabrina close to death in a drug house, the locals don't take kindly to her - and Sabrina's mother becomes suspicious. V.I. finds herself under the sharp gaze of the FBI - and the men running the county's opioid distribution. And when a dead body surfaces a few days later, V.I. is pitched headlong into a battle between the locals - with roots that date all the way back to the American Civil War. The war might be over, but its legacy remains - and V.I.'s survival depends on keeping one step ahead in a game she doesn't even know she's playing.