Body Work Hardcover - 2010
by Paretsky, Sara
- Used
The audacious new V. I. Warshawski novel from the New York Times-bestselling author.
The enigmatic performer known as the Body Artist takes the stage at Chicago's Club Gouge and allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for their impromptu illustrations. V. I. Warshawski watches as people step forward, some meek, some bold, to make their mark.
The evening takes a strange turn when one woman's sketch triggers a violent outburst from a man at a nearby table. Quickly subdued, the man-an Iraqi war vet-leaves the club. Days later, the woman is shot outside the club. She dies in V.I.'s arms, and the police move quickly to arrest the angry vet.
A shooting in Chicago is nothing new, certainly not to V.I., who is hired by the vet's family to clear his name. As V.I. seeks answers, her investigation will take her from the North Side of Chicago to the far reaches of the Gulf War.
Description
Details
- Title Body Work
- Author Paretsky, Sara
- Series V.I. Warshawski Novels
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition FIRST EDITION
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 443
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2010-08-31
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 5408977-6
- ISBN 9780399156748 / 0399156747
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 1.6 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 4.06 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Warshawski, V. I. (Fictitious character)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010016251
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
"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.
