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V.I. Warshawski 12

Sara Paretsky (Autor)

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2008
300 Seiten
Hodder & Stoughton (Verlag)
978-1-84456-847-5 (ISBN)

Infos

V I Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V I takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms, who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes.Through young Josie Dorrado, V I meets the girl's mother, who voices her worries about sabotage in the little flag manufacturing plant where she works. The biggest employer on the South Side, discount-store behemoth By-Smart, pays even less, and Ms. Dorrado doesn't know how she'll support her four children if the flag plant shuts down. The elder Dorrado's fears are realized when the plant explodes; V I is injured and the owner is killed. As V I begins to investigate, she finds herself confronting the Bysen family, who own the By-Smart company. Founder William "e;Buffalo Bill"e; Bysen, now in his eighties, has four sons who quarrel with each other and with him; the oldest, "e;Young Mr. William,"e; is close to sixty and furious that his father doesn't cede more power to him. And then, there's "e;Billy the Kid,"e; Young Mr. William's nineteen-year-old son, whose Christian idealism puts him on a collision course with his father, his grandfather, and the company as a whole. When Billy runs away with Josie Dorrado, V I is squeezed between the needs of two very different families. As she tries to find the errant teenagers, and to track down a particularly cruel murderer, her own life is almost forfeit in the swamps that lie under the city of Chicago.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.9.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• ISBN-10: 1-84456-847-4 / 1844568474
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84456-847-5 / 9781844568475