Body Work

Publisher Marketing: 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." Review Citations: Audio File 12/01/2010 pg. 54 (EAN 9781441868831, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2010 pg. 60 (EAN 9780399156748, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2010 (EAN 9780399156748, Hardcover) Booklist 07/01/2010 pg. 5 (EAN 9780399156748, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 07/19/2010 (EAN 9780399156748, Hardcover) - *Starred Review People Weekly 09/13/2010 pg. 72 (EAN 9780399156748, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 09/05/2010 pg. 26 (EAN 9780399156748, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 12/05/2010 pg. 64 (EAN 9780399156748, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Paretsky, Sara Sara Paretsky is the author of twenty books, including the renowned V. I. Warshawski novels. Named 2011 Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, and a recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger award given by the British Crime Writers Association, she is president of the Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Chicago. Contributor Bio:  Ericksen, Susan Susan Ericksen lives on the East Coast, where she performs on stage and on television. An Audie Award and "AudioFile" Earphones Award winner, she has recorded many audiobooks.