Dead Land

Sara Paretsky

eBook - 2020

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST"A proper hero for these times . . . To us, V.I. is perfect." — THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Sara Paretsky's gloriously kick-ass private eye, V.I. "Vic" Warshawski, is back . . . in a political-rot thriller that's the definition of perfection in the genre." — THE WASHINGTON POSTChicago's legendary detective, V.I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use, in this propulsive novel from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky.Chicago may be the city of broad shoulders, but its political law is "Pay to Play.&...quot; Money changes hands in the middle of the night, and by morning, buildings and parks are replaced by billion-dollar projects.Chicago PI... more