Body Work

Paretsky, Sara

ISBN 10: 0399156747 / ISBN 13: 9780399156748

Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, U. S. A., 2010

About this Item

First edition/First printing. Signed by author on title page. Book is Fine, in unread condition. Dust jacket is Fine. ; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 816

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Body Work
• Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, U. S. A.
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399156747
• ISBN 13: 9780399156748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery/Suspense

About this title

Synopsis

The audacious new V. I. Warshawski novel from the New York Times-bestselling author

"Doctors take days off--why not PIs?" V.I. Warshawski demands. But when America's hardest-working private eye goes clubbing, a stranger is shot and dies in her arms.

V.I. has been visiting Club Gouge, Chicago's edgiest nightspot, where a woman known as the Body Artist turns her naked body into a canvas for the audience to paint on.

The show attracts all kinds of people, from a menacing off-duty cop to Ukrainian mobsters and Iraq war vets--and V.I.'s impetuous cousin, Petra. A tormented young painter shows up, too, and the intricate designs she creates on the Body Artist drives on of the vets into a violent rage.

When the painter is shot, the cops figure it's an easy collar--PTSD vet goes off the rails, stalks then kills young woman. But the vet's family hires V.I. to clear his name, and the detective uncovers a chain of ugly truths that stretch all the way from Iraq to Chicago's South Side.

About the Author

Sara Paretsky is the author of sixteen books, including her renowned V. I. Warshawski novels, the most recent of which is the New York Times bestseller Hardball. Her many awards include the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers' Association. She lives in Chicago.