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In Total Recall, Sara Paretsky brings together several disparate plots in one gripping story. This powerfully suspenseful novel confronts the machinations of a vast and corrupt industry that trades on the victims of Nazi terrorism; the strange and dubious phenomenon of "recovered memory;" and a personal story that brings V. I. Warshawski into the long-buried past of her dearest friend and mentor, Dr. Lotty Herschel.

When V.I.'s close friend Lotty Herschel is approached by a man claiming to be a fellow Holocaust survivor, she's forced to recall a painful past she's tried desperately to forget. Coming to Lotty's aid, V.I. decides to investigate the mysterious stranger. But her findings lead to the exposure of something much darker involving an international conspiracy reaching all the way back to Nazi Europe - as well as a shocking truth which could potentially devastate her friend....

Sara Paretsky follows her instant New York Times bestseller Fallout—her most widely read novel in years—with an extraordinary adventure that pits her acclaimed detective, V.I. Warshawski, against some of today’s most powerful figures. Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski returns to the Windy...

Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.

When a young woman named Sabrina disappears without a trace in Kansas, private investigator V.I. Warshawski knows she must act fast. But when she discovers Sabrina close to death in a drug house, the locals don't take kindly to her - and Sabrina's mother becomes suspicious. V.I. finds herself under the sharp gaze of the FBI - and the men running the county's opioid distribution. And when a dead body surfaces a few days later, V.I. is pitched headlong into a battle between the locals - with roots that date all the way back to the American Civil War.

The new VI Warshawski novel from the New York Times best-selling author pits acclaimed detective VI Warshawski against some of today's most powerful figures. Legendary sleuth VI Warshawski returns to the Windy City to save an old friend's nephew from a murder arrest. The case involves a stolen artifact that could implicate a shadowy network of international criminals. As VI investigates, the detective soon finds herself tangling with the Russian mob, ISIS backers and a shady network of stock scams and stolen art that stretches from Chicago to the East Indies and the Middle East. 

Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, but V.I. Warshawski knows its politics: 'Pay to Play.' Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects. Private Investigator V.I. gets pulled into one of these clandestine deals when her impetuous goddaughter Bernie tries to rescue a famed Singer-Songwriter, now living on the streets. Thanks to Bernie, V.I. finds herself in the path of some developers whose negotiating strategy is simple: they bulldoze - or kill - any obstacle in their way.

Dicen que la sangre tira más que el agua, pero la detective privada Victoria Warshawski sabe lo amargas que pueden ser las relaciones familiares. Ella y su tía abuela Rosa arrastran una larga historia de rencores, pero, cuando la anciana le pide ayuda, Victoria no lo duda. Cuando los empleadores de Rosa, los frailes del priorato de San Alberto Magno, descubren que unos valiosos títulos guardados en su caja fuerte en realidad son falsificaciones, Rosa queda bajo una nube de sospecha. A medida que la detective profundiza en la investigación, la presión se vuelve violenta.

Cuando la leyenda de los Chicago Black Hawks, Boom Boom Warshawski, resbala desde un muelle y se ahoga en el lago Michigan, la policía lo califica de accidente. Su prima, la detective privada Victoria Warshawski, no está tan segura. Armada con una botella de Black Label y su Smith & Wesson, Victoria sigue un rastro sangriento hasta el corazón de la poderosa industria naviera de Chicago, donde la corrupción es profunda y los testigos no suelen vivir mucho tiempo.

Victoria es contratada por un hombre que se hace llamar John Thayer para localizar a la novia desaparecida de su hijo, pero en su lugar descubre el cadáver del joven. Poco después, Thayer también desaparece. Mientras intenta llegar a la verdad y desentrañar la auténtica identidad de quien la contrató, Victoria se encuentra atrapada en una red de fraude y violencia donde nada es lo que parece. Cuando por fin vislumbra las respuestas, la detective se ve obligada a emprender una carrera contrarreloj para encontrar a la joven desaparecida… antes de que sea demasiado tarde.

En hjemløs i Chicagos gader ser i en åbenbaring Jomfru Marias ansigt vædet med tårer af blod på en garagemur under et luksushotel. Og inden længe valfarter andre udstødte kvinder til muren. Men hotellet vil have fjernet de hjemløse, der virker provokerende på gæsterne, og beder hotellets advokat, Harriet Stonds løse problemet.

"Heksejagt" er den 11. bog om V.I. Warshawski. I kølvandet på 11. september påtager V.I. Warshawski sig en opgave for en tidligere klient. Hun skal overvåge et gammelt familielandsted, der står tomt, men en nat overrasker hun en ubuden gæst og styrter i guldfiskebassinet. Da hun griber ud efter noget at holde fast i, lukker hendes fingre sig om en iskold hånd. Et lig er dukket op til overfladen. Opdagelsen hvirvler V.I. ind i to store Chicago-familiers historier, hvor der tegner sig et kompliceret spil om blod, sex, penge, skandaler – og mord.

"Drøje tider" er den 9. bog om V.I. Warshawski. Et verdensomspændende multimedieforetagende, Global Entertainment, har erhvervet Chicago-avisen, The Herald-Star, og tvunget avisens medarbejdere til det ene kompromis efter det andet for at bevare deres job. Det lykkes reporteren, Murray Ryerson, V.I. Warshawskys gode ven og rival gennem længere tid, at skabe sig en karriere som vært for et tv-show på Globals netværk. På vej hjem fra en reception for at fejre Murrays debut som skærmtrold, er V.I. millimeter fra at køre over en kvinde, der ligger på gaden.

"Intet glemt" er den 10. bog om V.I. Warshawski. For V.I. begynder sagen ved en konference i Chicago, hvor vrede demonstranter kræver udbetaling af Holocaust-midler. En ukendt mand rejser sig under konferencen og fortæller en forbløffende historie om en barndom, der blev ødelagt af Holocaust – en historie, der har rystende konsekvenser for Lotty Herschel, V.I.’s ven og mentor. Lotty tvinges til at huske sin barndom. Hun blev som niårig sammen med en lille gruppe jævnaldrende børn sendt fra Østrig til London lige inden nazisternes terror begyndte.

On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski's dogs lead her on a mad chase that ends when they find a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The girl only regains consciousness long enough to utter one enigmatic word. V.I. helps bring her to a hospital, but not long after, she vanishes before anyone can discover her identity. As V.I. attempts to find her, the detective uncovers an ugly consortium of Chicago power brokers and mobsters who are prepared to kill the girl before VI can save her.

Mr. Marlow was hired to help with a loan shark, yet in reality, what was wanted from him had nothing to do with the loan.

In sports, announcers can have a lot of power. In this story lies a lesson in how to use that power.

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...

Da Vics faetter, den tidligere hockeystjerne Boom-Boom Warshawski, under mystiske omstaendigheder findes død i Chicagos havn, saetter Vic sig for at finde hans morder. Hun er overbevist om, at Boom-Boom ikke blot er snublet på den glatte havnemole, men at fordaekte gerningsmaend har villet have ham af vejen, da han lå inde med oplysninger om kriminalitet i rederiindustrien.

Vics kvarter er ved at blive overtaget af "yuppier", der med deres bidselsko og sorte mapper vil gøre området mere eksklusivt. Skatterne ryger i vejret og almindelige mennesker som Vic, der lever fra hånden til munden, presses til at følge med - eller pakke sammen og forlade denne del af byen. Vaerst går det dog ud over gamle Hattie Frizell og hendes fem hunde, der i yuppiernes øjne er bydelens vaerste skamplet.