Sara Paretsky: Body Work (UK 2012)

From the Publisher:
The fourteenth V.I. Warshawski novel from a crime author who writes with unbeatable pace and a passion for justice.
Club Gouge: Chicago's edgiest night spot, where a woman calling herself the Body Artist invites the audience to use her naked body as a canvas.

The show attracts all kinds of people, from a menacing cop to Ukrainian mobsters and Iraq war veterans. A tormented young painter comes too, and the designs she creates on the Body Artist drive one of the soldiers into a violent rage.

When the painter is shot, the police assume the shell-shocked veteran went off the rails. But his family hires V.I. to clear his name - and the detective discovers a chain of ugly truths stretching from Iraq to Chicago's South Side.

Sara Paretsky: Body Work. The search for justice will uncover an ugly truth... A V.I. Warshawski Novel. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9780340994122 (January, 2012), 449 p., £6.99.

Sara Paretsky: Body Work (USA 2011)

From the Publisher:
The last thing V.I. Warshawski was expecting when she showed up at Chicago's Club Gouge was that she'd wind up cradling a dying performance artist in an alley. A PTSD-stricken soldier is presumed guilty of the murder, but it's up to V.I. to find out what kinds of shady activities are really happening at Club Gouge...

Sara Paretsky: Body Work. A V.I. Warshawski Novel. Signet, ISBN: 9780451413086 (July, 2011), 559 p., $9.99.

Sara Paretsky: Body Work (UK 2011)

From the Publisher:
The fourteenth V.I. Warshawski novel from a crime author who writes with unbeatable pace and a passion for justice.
Club Gouge: Chicago's edgiest night spot, where a woman calling herself the Body Artist invites the audience to use her naked body as a canvas.

The show attracts all kinds of people, from a menacing cop to Ukrainian mobsters and Iraq war veterans. A tormented young painter comes too, and the designs she creates on the Body Artist drive one of the soldiers into a violent rage.

When the painter is shot, the police assume the shell-shocked veteran went off the rails. But his family hires V.I. to clear his name - and the detective discovers a chain of ugly truths stretching from Iraq to Chicago's South Side.

Sara Paretsky: Body Work. A V.I. Warshawski Novel. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9780340994108 (March, 2011), 449 p., £16.99.

Sara Paretsky: Body Work (USA 2010)

From the Publisher:
The audacious new V. I. Warshawski novel from New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky.
"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 Gunge, 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.

SARA PARETSKY
is the author of sixteen books, including her renowned V. I. Warshawski novels, the most recent of which is the New York Times bestseller Hardball. Her many awards include the Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award from the British Crime Writers' Association. She lives in Chicago.

Sara Paretsky: Body Work. A V.I. Warshawski Novel. Putnam's, ISBN: 9780399156748 (September, 2010), 443 p., $26.95.