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Narrator: Sandra Burr
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: Sep 2003
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Retail Price: $40.95
Discs: 13
Every new Sara Paretsky novel is an event, the chance to reencounter her beloved heroine, V. I. Warshawski ' 'a private eye with the sharpest tongue and hardest head in Chicago' (The New York Times Book Review) ' a cause for rejoicing. But Blacklist is something special. This is a story of secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations ' secrets political, social, sexual, financial: all of them with the power to kill. Eager for something physical to do in the spirit-exhausting wake of 9/11, V.I. accepts a request from an old client to check up on an empty family mansion; subsequently surprises an intruder in the dark; and, giving chase, topples into a pond. Grasping for something to hold on to, her fingers close around a lifeless human hand. It is the body of a reporter who had been investigating events of forty-five years earlier, during the McCarthy era, and V. I.'s discovery quickly sucks her into the history of two great Chicago families ' their fortunes intertwined by blood, sex, money, and the scandals that may or may not have resulted in murder all these years later. At the same time, she inadvertently becomes involved in the story of a missing Egyptian boy whose possible terrorist connections make him very much sought after by the government. As the two cases drive her forward'and then shockingly tumble together, pushing her into situations more perilous than she could have imagined'she finds that wealth and privilege, too, bear a terrible price; and the past has no monopoly on patriotic scoundrels. Before everything is over, at least two more people will lie dead...and V.I. might even be one of them.
Representing some unsavory characters in his work as a defense lawyer, Mickey Haller takes on his first high-paying and possibly innocent client in...
In the 19th mystery in this popular alphabetical series, private detective Kinsey Milhone attempts to discover the truth behind the disappearance of...
With Dark Harbor, Stuart Woods proved yet again that he is the master of the popular crime novel. Now he outdoes himself with the newest addition to...
Janet Evanovich adds her 14th installment to the Plum mystery series with the madcap PLUM LOVIN'. Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has been asked to track...
The explosive action kicks off as FBI agent Ruth Warnecki hunts for Confederate gold in a West Virginia cave. She never expects to encounter the...
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to...
Charlie Pope, a recently released rapist/murderer from St. John's Security Hospital, has removed his electronic surveillance ankle bracelet and...
Stone Barrington and Holly Barker, Woods’ busiest heroes, pair up again, this yarn finding Stone traveling to Dark Harbor, Maine, after his...