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While visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.

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Main Author: Paretsky, Sara (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
Edition:First Harper Large Print edition.
Series:Paretsky, Sara. V.I. Warshawski novel.
Subjects:
Warshawski, V. I. > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Women private investigators > Illinois > Chicago > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Opioid abuse > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Kansas > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Large print books.
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Summary:While visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
Physical Description:614 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN:9780063359826
0063359820
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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