![]() The dependable delights of a Warshawski novel are also in abundant supply: witty dialogue, Warshawski’s “bad girl” behavior when confronted by authority, taut action scenes, sharp social commentary and the return visits of series regulars like Lotty Herschel and the always fretting Mr. Only her wits, and an unusual alliance she forges with Geraldine Graham and a sixteen year old girl save her. finds herself penned into a smaller and smaller space by an array of business and political leaders who can call on the power of the Patriot Act to shut her up. The trail leads her back to the McCarthy era blacklists, and forward to the ominous police powers the American government has assumed today. finds herself in the middle of a Gothic tale of sex, money, and power. ![]() to investigate.Īs she retraces the dead reporter’s tracks, V.I. The man is an African-American when the suburban cops seem to be treating him as a criminal who stumbled to a drunken death, his family hires V.I. out to investigate-and the detective finds a dead journalist in the ornamental pond. When Geraldine sees lights there in the middle of the night, Darraugh sends V.I. ![]() His ninety-one year-old mother has sold the family estate, but Geraldine Graham keeps a fretful eye on it from her retirement apartment across the road. ![]() Warshawski is glad to take on a routine stake-out for her most important client, Darraugh Graham. ![]() Eager for physical action in the spirit-numbing wake of 9/11, V.I. ![]()
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