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The enigmatic performer known as the Body Artist takes the stage at Chicago's Club Gouge and allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for their impromptu illustrations. The evening takes a strange turn when one woman's sketch triggers a violent outburst from a man at a nearby table. Qui...

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Main Author: Paretsky, Sara
Other Authors: Ericksen, Susan (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, p2010.
Series:Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Paretsky, Sara. V.I. Warshawski novel ; 14.
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Warshawski, V. I. > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Women private investigators > Illinois > Chicago > Fiction.
Artists > Crimes against > Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > Illinois.
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Summary:The enigmatic performer known as the Body Artist takes the stage at Chicago's Club Gouge and allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for their impromptu illustrations. The evening takes a strange turn when one woman's sketch triggers a violent outburst from a man at a nearby table. Quickly subdued, the man, an Iraqi war vet, leaves the club. Days later, the woman is shot outside the club. She dies in V.I. Warshawski's arms, and the police move quickly to arrest the angry vet.
Item Description:"A V.I. Warshawski novel"--Container.
Title from container.
Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Duration: 16:06:00.
Physical Description:14 sound discs (16 hr., 6 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time:16:06:00
Production Credits:Director, David Colacci.
ISBN:9781441868831
1441868836
9781469272627
1469272628
Author Notes:Author Sara Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa on June 8, 1947. She received a degree in political science from the University of Kansas and ultimately completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago; her dissertation was entitled "The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War." She also earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. She married a professor of physics (University of Chicago).

The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is V.I. Warshawski, a female private investigator. V. I. Warshawsky shows a female detective succeeding a traditionally male role.

Paretsky has won numerous awards for her work including the Silver Dagger Award for Toxic Shock, the Gold Dagger award for Blacklist, and the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers Association.

Her title Brush Back made the New York Times Best Seller List in 2015.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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