Body Work (Playaway Adult Fiction)

Paretsky, Sara

ISBN 10: 1441879048 ISBN 13: 9781441879042

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2010

Synopsis

The thing about Sara Paretsky is, she s tough not because she observes the bone-breaker conventions of the private-eye genre but because she doesn t flinch from examining old social injustices others might find too shameful (and too painful) to dig up. The New York Times Book Review 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 drive one 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 stretches all the way from Iraq to Chicago s South Side."

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Review

One of the most memorable novels in Paretsky's fine series. (Joan Smith, The Times)

Paretsky has been putting her private investigator through her paces since 1982, changing perceptions of women in crime fiction through the creation of a fiercely independent female detective. She keeps her brand of politicised noir fresh by responding to issues - social, cultural and political as well as gender - in contemporary life . . . Tackling the politics of the Iraq War and ideologies of corporate greed where the human body is devalued, Paretsky is firing on all cylinders (Metro)

This is the 14th case for the feminist gumshoe and it has all the hallmarks and energy of its predecessors. (Sunday Telegraph)

With the creation of V.I. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky did more than anyone to change the face of contemporary women's fiction. (Express on Sunday)

Very readable (The Times)

Paretsky's writing captures the essence of her beguiling heroine: Victoria Iphigenia is as tough as nails with a soft spot for justice that just won't quit. (Time Out)

Book Description

The fourteenth V.I. Warshawski novel from a crime author who writes with unbeatable pace and a passion for justice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441879048
• ISBN 13: 9781441879042
• Binding: Preloaded Digital Audio Player