Автор - Sara Paretsky
Ángel guardián
Автор: Sara ParetskyЖанр: Иностранная литература
La detective Victoria Warshawski, mujer independiente, solitaria, aparentemente dura e incapaz de ordenar su vida doméstica y sentimental, vuelve a hacerse cargo de la causa de los desheredados encarnada en dos de sus vecinos: una anciana que vive sola con sus perros y cuya presencia incomoda a los nuevos residentes del barrio y el entrañable señor Contreras, que le pide su ayuda para localizar a un antiguo compañero de trabajo desaparecido cuando hacía averiguaciones sobre las condiciones de jubilación de la empresa en la que ambos trabajaban.
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Blacklist
Автор: Sara ParetskyЖанр: Иностранная литература
Dagger AwardsEager for physical action in the spirit-numbing wake of 9/11, VI Warshawski is glad to take on a routine stake-out for her most important client, Darraugh Graham. His ninety-one year-old mother has sold the family estate, but Geraldine Graham keeps a fretful eye on it from her retirement apartment across the road. When Geraldine sees lights there in the middle of the night, Darraugh sends V I out to investigate-and the detective finds a dead journalist in the ornamental pond. The man is an African-American; when the suburban cops seem to be treating him as a criminal who stumbled to a drunken death, his family hires V I to investigate.As she retraces the dead reporter’s tracks, V I finds herself in the middle of a Gothic tale of sex, money, and power. The trail leads her back to the McCarthy era blacklists, and forward to the ominous police powers the American government has assumed today. V I finds herself penned into a smaller and smaller space by an array of business and political leaders who can call on the power of the Patriot Act to shut her up. Only her wits, and an unusual alliance she forges with Geraldine Graham and a sixteen year old girl save her.
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Body Work
Автор: Sara ParetskyЖанр: Иностранная литература
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.
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Burn Marks
Автор: Sara ParetskyЖанр: Иностранная литература
When her seedy and importunate Aunt Elena turns up on her doorstep at midnight having been burned out of her old people's home, V.I. Warshawski is exasperated rather than curious. Her interest is aroused however, when an old friend, now a politician, puts pressure on her to investigate.
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Medicina amarga
Автор: Sara ParetskyЖанр: Иностранная литература
V. I. Warshawski, detective privado, intenta resolver una serie de asesinatos que comienzan con la extraña muerte de su amiga Consuelo y su bebé en una lujosa clínica, ¿Hubo negligencia? ¿Quién mató al joven médico negro que la atendía? Al mismo tiempo tiene que luchar con los problemas domésticos habituales: la dieta desordenada, los efectos del fanatismo religioso o la dura vida de Chicago.
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Killing Orders
Автор: Sara ParetskyЖанр: Иностранная литература
When Detective V.I. Warshawski begins an investigation of a three million dollar theft from a monastery, acid is thrown in her face, and she suspects she might be taking on the Vatican, the Mafia, and an international conglomerate.
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Marcas de Fuego
Автор: Sara ParetskyЖанр: Иностранная литература
Varios hoteles se incendian en el Chicago de las muchas razas e infinitas tramas. Nadie sabe por qué. ¿Algo huele a corrupción? Victoria Warshawski, la elegante, dura y original detective protagonista de las novelas de Sara Paretsky, jamás rehúye una causa noble, sobre todo si se trata de evitar la explotación de cualquier minoría étnica y de esa gran mayoría marginada que constituyen las mujeres.
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Jugar a ganar
Автор: Sara ParetskyЖанр: Иностранная литература
Decimotercera novela de la serie de la comprometida investigadora privada Vic Warshawski. En esta ocasión, se involucra en un caso enraizado en los años sesenta, en plena efervescencia de la lucha por los derechos de la comunidad afroamericana Durante los disturbios raciales de 1967, cuando los blancos reaccionaron con dureza ante los planes de integración en los barrios, Lamont Gadsden desapareció sin dejar rastro. Años después, su anciana madre le encomienda el caso a Vic Warshawski. La detective se enfrentará a un periodo desagradable de la historia de su ciudad, en el que una marcha pacífica de Martin Luther King se saldó con la muerte de una joven negra, y lo que ella consideraba un caso cerrado e imposible se convierte en algo mortalmente peligroso.Viejas cuestiones de la historia racial de Chicago y secretos familiares −suyos propios y del desaparecido− saldrán a la luz de manera sorprendente.
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Indemnity Only
Автор: Sara ParetskyЖанр: Иностранная литература
The vice-president of a Chicago bank hires V.I. Warshawski to find his son. She's pleased. The head of the International Brotherhood of Knifegrinders hires her to find his daughter. She's not so pleased. Who's the boss in this dangerous game of insurance fraud, murder contracts and gunmen?
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Deadlock
Автор: Sara ParetskyЖанр: Иностранная литература
When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye cousin, the intrepid V.I. Warshawski, questions the accidental death report and rumors of suicide. Armed with a bottle of Black Label and a Smith Wesson, V.I. follows a trail of violence and corruption to the center of the Windy City's powerful shipping industry. Dodging attempts on her life with characteristic grit and humor, V.I. wends her way through a maze of grain elevators and thousand-ton freighters, ruthless businessmen, and gorgeous ballerinas, to ferret out Boom Boom's killers before they take her out of the picture – permanently.
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Lista negra
Автор: Sara ParetskyЖанр: Иностранная литература
Una historia de secretos y mentiras que atraviesa cuatro generaciones.Tras los atentados del 11 de septiembre, la detective V.I. Warshawski acepta un extraño encargo de uno de sus clientes más importantes: debe vigilar la antigua mansión de su madre, pues la anciana está segura de ver luces en ella.En medio de la noche, la investigadora encuentra en los jardines de la casa el cadáver de un periodista negro. Al ver que la policía está más que dispuesta a dar carpetazo al asunto, la familia del difunto contrata los servicios de Warshawski para que les ayude a limpiar su buen nombre.De este modo, la detective se irá enredando en una tela de araña hecha de lujuria, dinero mal adquirido, secretos ocultos y poder que se remonta a la época de la “caza de brujas” del senador McCarthy y las tristemente famosas listas negras.Warshawski se dará cuenta de que hay fuerzas muy poderosas empeñadas en que la sórdida verdad no salga a la luz, y de que tendrá que poner toda su habilidad en juego sino quiere correr el riesgo de ser un eslabón más en la cadena de extorsiones y asesinatos.
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Fire Sale
Автор: Sara ParetskyЖанр: Иностранная литература
The astonishing new V. I. Warshawski novel from one of America 's foremost writers of crime fiction.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 onfronting the Bysen family, who own the By-Smart company. Founder William "Buffalo Bill" Bysen, now in his eighties, has four sons who quarrel with each other and with him; the oldest, "Young Mr. William," is close to sixty and furious that his father doesn't cede more power to him. And then there's "Billy the Kid," 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.
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