Chicago politics-past, present, and future-take center stage
in New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky's
brilliant new V. I. Warshawski novel.
Chicago's unique brand of ball is sixteen-inch slow pitch,
played in leagues all over the city for more than a century.
But in politics, in business, and in law enforcement, the
game is hardball.
When V. I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who's been
missing for four decades, a search that she figured would be
futile becomes lethal. Old skeletons from the city's
racially charged history, as well as haunting family
secrets-her own and those of the elderly sisters who hired
her-rise up to brush her back from the plate with a
vengeance. A young cousin whom she's never met arrives from
Kansas City to work on a political campaign; a nun who
marched with Martin Luther King Jr. dies without revealing
crucial evidence; and on the city's South Side, people spit
when she shows up. Afraid to learn that her adored father
might have been a bent cop, V. I. still takes the
investigation all the way to its frightening end.
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