V. I. Warshawski explores secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations in this New York Times bestselling novel from one of the most compelling writers in American crime fiction...
 
�A thoughtful, high-tension mystery.��The Washington Post Book World
 
�A genuinely exciting and disturbing thriller.��Chicago Tribune
 
As a favor to her most important client, V. I. agrees to check up on an empty mansion. But instead of a mysterious intruder she discovers a dead man in the ornamental pond�a reporter for an African-American publication whom the suburban cops are quick to dismiss as a suicide.
 
When the man�s shattered family hires V. I. to investigate, she is sucked into a Gothic tale of sex, money, and power, leading her back to McCarthy-era blacklists and forward to some of the darker aspects of the Patriot Act. As V. I. finds herself penned in to a smaller and smaller space by an array of people trying to silence her, and before she can untangled the sordid truth, two more people will die�and V.I.�s own life will hang in the balance.Read less
 
Author: Sara Paretsky
Published: 2003
Hardback