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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Stubbornness has landed private eye V.I. Warshawski in big trouble at her Chicago office. With her grand old Loop building set to be razed, she's become a hold-out tenant amid frayed wiring and scary, empty corridors. Then she finds a homeless woman with three kids in the basement, and before she can rescue them, they disappear. Worst of all, she's been implicated in a murder--after the body of Deirdre Messenger, a prominent lawyer's wife, turns up sprawled across her desk. V.I., who had volunteered with Deirdre at a women's shelter, suspects her death is linked to a case of upper-class domestic abuse so slickly concealed that the police refuse to believe it. Increasingly at odds with the cops, V.I. is blindly plunging ahead after the truth. And her path may lead to corruption at the highest levels.or deep into the abandoned tunnels beneath Chicago's streets, where secrets are hiding in the dark like a child's--or V.I.'s--worst nightmare.… (more)
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In the end, the missing are rescued, the bad guys end up in jail, and the murders get solved....those aren't spoilers, they're the general theme of all such cookie cutter mysteries with "wonder woman" leading ladies.
In this novel, V.I. is asked to take on a client's son and find him some community service work, at the same time she is asked to look into the mysterious withdrawal of financial backing for a
(Read March 2006)
I can't figure how that would have been
Vic's office building is scheduled for demolition and she finds a woman and the woman's three children living in the
A parallel story shows Vic invited to a retirement dinner at a wealthy couple's home and witnessing the mistreatment of the family's children by both the wife and the influential husband.
I enjoyed the story and the manner in which the author talks about important topics such as irregularities in the construction business, abused women and troubled children from wealthy and impoverished families. With these topics, the author does a nice job of balancing them within the story so the reader is able to follow a complex plot easily.
I've mentioned in reviews of previous books in this series that I felt the plots got a bit convoluted--I'd think the book should be done and there'd still be several more chapters of "wrap up" of some other side plots.