3.5
Hardball
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Chicago politics—past, present, and future—take center stage in this complex and compelling V.I. Warshawki novel from New York Times bestselling author Sara Peretsky.
Tracking down missing persons is part of V.I. Warshawski’s job. But Lamont Gadsden has been missing for more than forty years—last seen heading out into the 1967 blizzard, in the midst of Chicago’s racial unrest. V.I. figured the search would be futile. She didn’t realize it would be lethal...or lead to troubling discoveries about her own family. And when her young cousin Petra disappears, an angry preacher, a jailed gangbanger, and politics from both past and present interconnect—and plunge V.I. into a mystery as unsettling as the ’60s themselves.
A New York Times Notable Crime Book of the Year
One of NPR’s Top Five Crime Novels of the Year
Tracking down missing persons is part of V.I. Warshawski’s job. But Lamont Gadsden has been missing for more than forty years—last seen heading out into the 1967 blizzard, in the midst of Chicago’s racial unrest. V.I. figured the search would be futile. She didn’t realize it would be lethal...or lead to troubling discoveries about her own family. And when her young cousin Petra disappears, an angry preacher, a jailed gangbanger, and politics from both past and present interconnect—and plunge V.I. into a mystery as unsettling as the ’60s themselves.
A New York Times Notable Crime Book of the Year
One of NPR’s Top Five Crime Novels of the Year
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“It has been quite a while since I read any of the exploits of V I Warshawski. It was great to return to the seamier side of Chicago in the presence of my favourite PI. Vic is older but not necessarily wiser. She is hired, by two old black women, to look for a missing person who disappeared way back in the sixties at the time Martin Luther King was preaching his dream, and being protected by local gangsters, the Anacondas. The investigation stirs up some very bad people, who thought they'd covered their asses for past crimes long ago. Chicago's finest of which V.I.'s dad was one, turned out not to be so fine and will stop at nothing to keep covered up what V.I. is looking to uncover. The book is a page-turner and you know the hardball of the title will be a clue but what it represents surprised me. Vic has an exuberant cousin on the scene, fresh out of Kansas and full of youthful energy, making V.I. at times feel her age, it is difficult to tell if said cousin is on Vicki's side or not, as her father, Vicki's uncle is in the proverbial right up to his neck. Readers familiar with V.I. will be pleased some of the old characters are still around, like the elderly neighbour, Mr Contreras, Lotty Herschel, leading perinatologist at Beth Israel and Bobby Mallory, who despite his advancing years is still working for the police, they all return for this chapter in V.I.'s exciting story.”
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About Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky is the New York Times bestselling author of the renowned V.I. Warshawski novels. Her many awards include the Cartier Diamond Dagger Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Crime Writers' Association and the 2011 Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. She lives in Chicago.
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