Body Work

The audacious new V. I. Warshawski novel from the New York Times-bestselling author

"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 drives on 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 stretch all the way from Iraq to Chicago's South Side.

• Author
• Sara Paretsky

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 443

• Series
• V.I. Warshawski

• Publisher
• G.P. Putnam 's Sons

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780399156748

• Settings
• Illinois

• Genres
• mystery, fiction, crime, thriller, detective, suspense, womens, audiobook, adult

• Release date
• 2010