Sara Paretsky: Killing Orders (USA 2017)

From the Publisher:
From New York Times Bestselling Author Sara Paretsky comes another electrifying novel of suspense in her beloved V. I. Warshawski series...

They say blood is thicker than water. Private eye V. I. Warshawski has her doubts, especially when it comes to the bad blood between her and her great-aunt Rosa. But when the old lady reaches out, V. I. answers the call.

The good friars at St. Albertus Magnus Priory, Rosa's long-time employers, have cashed in on valuable securities from their safe.only to discover they were counterfeits. Suspended under a cloud of suspicion, Rosa wants V. I. to clear her name. Exonerate a senior citizen who's never missed Sunday mass? Easy enough -- or so V. I. thinks before a mystery brought to her by new flame Roger Ferrant crosses paths with Rosa's case.

The deeper V. I. digs, the more someone wants her to take her shovel and go home -- someone who threatens to blind her with acid, and won't stop there. Because corruption's tentacles reach farther than V. I. imagined; from her family to Chicago's infamous Family.and from a monastery's hushed hallways to the highest echelons of the Church.

Sara Paretsky: Killing Orders. A V. I. Warshawski Novel. William Morrow, ISBN: 9780062676221 (August, 2017), 368 p., $7.99.

Sara Paretsky: Killing Orders (UK 2007)

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'WITH THE CREATION OF V. I. WARSHAWSKI, SARA PARETSKY DID MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE TO CHANGE THE FACE OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION' -- EXPRESS ON SUNDAY
Years ago V. I. Warshawski's Aunt Rosa treated the detective's beloved mother in an unforgivable way. Now, after she's accused of stealing $3 million from the Dominican priory where she works, Rosa calls upon the ties of blood to clear her name.

V. I. is not prepared to forgive so easily. She doesn't want the case. Until suddenly no one else - the FBI, a threatening phone caller, and even Aunt Rosa herself - appears to want her on the case either. V. I. turns to an old friend for help. But the stakes are higher than she could have realised...

V. I. Warshawski made her stunning debut twenty-five years ago in Indemnity Only - newly available from Hodder paperbacks. Also available: the second novel, Deadlock.

Sara Paretsky: Killing Orders. A V. I. Warshawski Novel. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 0340935146 (January, 2008), 313 p., £6.99.

Sara Paretsky: Killing Orders (USA 2005)

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V.I.'s battleaxe Aunt Rosa is under investigation by the FBI and SEC after counterfeit stock certificates were found at St. Albert's Priory, where she serves as treasurer. As malicious as her aunt is, V.I. knows she's not dishonest, so V.I. vows to protect her from taking the fall. But V.I. starts questioning the strength of her family ties when a menacing voice on the phone threatens to throw acid into her eyes if she doesn't butt out. The stakes are high as she begins to sniff out a connection between Chicago's most powerful institutions: the Church and the Mob.

Sara Paretsky: Killing Orders. Signet, ISBN: 0451214978 (May, 2005), 368 p., $7.99.

Sara Paretsky: Killing Orders (USA 1993)

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"ENTERTAINING AND INTELLIGENT." -- The Washington Post Book World
V.I. Warshawski's latest case had already opened up old wounds. But when a silky voice on the phone threatened to throw acid into her eyes, V.I. knew this one could finish her off with some brand-new ones. The sour-faced old aunt she had agreed to help was accused of stealing millions in stock certificates from a pious order of Dominican brothers. V.I. knew the woman was a witch, not a thief, and she soon smelled something rotten in the sanctum sanctorum of Chicago's most powerful movers and shakers -- the Church and the Mob. Now someone wanted to see V.I. burn in hell. But this tough cookie of a private eye had her back up, a brand-new Smith & Wesson, and a daring plan to make the bad guys go to the devil first.

KILLING ORDERS

"V.I. IS UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE BEST-WRITTEN CHARACTERS IN MYSTERY FICTION." -- The Baltimore Sun
"V.I. IS A WORTHY HEIR TO MARLOWE!" -- Daily News (New York)

Sara Paretsky: Killing Orders. Dell Publishing, ISBN: 0440215285 (October, 1993), 339 p., $5.99.

Sara Paretsky: Killing Orders (UK 1987)

From the Publisher:
Three million dollars in share certificates have been stolen from a Dominican priory, and Vic Warshawski doesn't want to find out why.
Aunt Rosa, the priory's treasurer, wants her on the case, and Vic has never forgiven Rosa for something she did a long time ago. But Vic changes her mind and the case changes its course when Vic visits the priory. Suddenly everyone -- her aunt, the FBI and a mysterious phone caller threatening to pour acid on Vic's beautiful eyes -- tell her to let sleeping dogs lie, and one of Vic's dearest friends is murdered...

With her customary skill and with the help of a few stiff drinks, Vic plunges into the affair. She needs all her wit, ingenuity and femininity, as well as her gun-handling and karate-chopping skills.

Sara Paretsky: Killing Orders. A Warshawski Story. Penguin Books, ISBN: 0140099263 (October, 1987), 233 p., £3.99.

Sara Paretsky: Killing Orders (USA 1985)

From the Publisher:
After V. I. "Vic" Warshawski's first two outings in Indemnity Only and Deadlock, Marilyn Stasio called her "one of the toughest and perhaps the most persuasively written of the new breed of female private eyes." Now, in Killing Orders, Vic is back and tougher than ever as she's called in to investigate an unholy three-million-dollar theft from a local Dominican priory.

All hell breaks loose when a mysterious opponent tries to take Vic off the case by throwing acid in her eyes and burning down her apartment. And when a friend who's involved in the case is brutally murdered, it begins to look as if Vic hasn't got a prayer.

But Warshawski's not the type to be easily intimidated. She continues to follow every lead, even when they point to some pretty unorthodox conclusions: Perhaps the gentle brothers are covering up a financial scandal. Maybe the whole conspiracy is under the patronage of an international conglomerate, or of Don Pasquale, king of the Chicago mob. Worst of all, someone who's close to Vic could be involved -- her darkly handsome English lover, Roger Ferrant, or her holier-than-thou relative, Aunt Rosa.

Killing Orders is a smashing continuation of the V. I. Warshawski mysteries. It firmly establishes its heroine as the most exciting new star of private-eye fiction, and its author as the most exciting new talent in the field.

Sara Paretsky is the author of Indemnity Only and Deadlock. Like V. I. Warshawski, she lives in Chicago.

Sara Paretsky: Killing Orders. A V.I. Warshawski Mystery. William Morrow, ISBN: 068804820X (April, 1985), 233 p., $15.95.