Cover Image

Fallout

V. I. Warshawski's impossible god-daughter Bernie convinces her to look for August, a young film-maker who has disappeared. The evidence indicates that he has gone to Kansas in the company of Emerald, an older black movie actress who wants to film the story of her life. Her search takes V.I. fr...

Full description

Main Author: Paretsky, Sara (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Edition: First edition.
Series: V.I. Warshawski novel ; 18.
Subjects:
Warshawski, V. I. > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Women private investigators > Illinois > Chicago > Fiction.
Illinois > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > Illinois.
Online Access: Go to Downloadable eBook Here.
Summary: V. I. Warshawski's impossible god-daughter Bernie convinces her to look for August, a young film-maker who has disappeared. The evidence indicates that he has gone to Kansas in the company of Emerald, an older black movie actress who wants to film the story of her life. Her search takes V.I. from the military base Emerald was born on, to the farm where she grew up outside a university town, ploughing up past and present-day secrets as she goes. What is happening at the former nuclear missile site next door to the farm? What happened at the site in 1983, when students tried to stage their own version of Greenham Common? Everywhere V.I. turns she seems to be finding more trouble - with not a sign of August and Emerald. And then trouble turns to death.
Physical Description: x, 433 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780062435842
9781473624344
0062435841
9780062663184
0062663186
1473624347
006243585X
9780062435859
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)

Similar Items