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Hardball (Hardcover)

By: Sara Paretsky (Author)

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"This is an ambitious novel layered in the grit of recent American racial history....In "Hardball" -- a standout, nuanced mystery about civil rights struggles past and present -- V.I. demonstrates, once again, that when push comes to shove, the scrappiest street fighters are from Chicago."

"With its vivid setting, intelligent heroine and sharp, clear look at contemporary life, this is another winner." (Top Pick)

"The thing about Sara Paretsky is, she's tough....Unlike many popular crime writers, Paretsky doesn't turn out books like com battery hen...so it's a distinct pleasure to hear her unapologetically strident voice once again."

"Nuanced, well-realized characters and an intricately braided plot mark another stellar performance from a storyteller as dedicated to entertainment as to exposing humankind's treachery and greed." (starred review)

"Bestseller Paretsky tracks the poisonous residue of racial hatred that still seeps into Chicago life and politics in her fine 13th novel to feature gutsy PI V. I. "Vic" Warshawski...."

"A tormented, many-layered tale....Readers who persevere through...[the] first-half flashback will be rewarded with the tremendous momentum of the second half."

Publisher's note

Hired to track down a man who has been missing for forty years, V.I. Warshawski inadvertently unearths old skeletons from Chicago's history and her own family, a situation marked by a young cousin she has never met and the untimely death of a nun. By the Cartier Diamond Dagger-winning author of Blacklist.

Hired to track down a man who has been missing for forty years, V.I. Warshawski inadvertently unearths old skeletons from Chicago's history and her own family, a situation marked by a young cousin she has never met and the untimely death of a nun. By the Cartier Diamond Dagger-winning author of Blacklist.

Chicago politicsapast, present, and futureatake center stage in "New York Times"abestselling author Sara Paretskyas brilliant new V. I. Warshawski novel.
Chicagoas unique brand of ball is sixteen-inch slow pitch, played in leagues all over the city for more than a century. But in politics, in business, and in law enforcement, the game is hardball.
When V. I. Warshawski is asked to find a man whoas been missing for four decades, a search that she figured would be futile becomes lethal. Old skeletons from the cityas racially charged history, as well as haunting family secretsaher own and those of the elderly sisters who hired herarise up to brush her back from the plate with a vengeance. A young cousin whom sheas never met arrives from Kansas City to work on a political campaign; a nun who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. dies without revealing crucial evidence; and on the cityas South Side, people spit when she shows up. Afraid to learn that her adored father might have been a bent cop, V. I. still takes the investigation all the way to its frightening end.

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What initially seemed like a simple case--simple because she figured there would be no way she could actually find a man who'd been missing for 40 years--leads Chicago detective V. I. Warshawski into a gnarly net of dark secrets, shady cover-ups, and racially charged mysteries. Her revered cop-father's reputation comes into question, as Vic uncovers a series of connected acts of violence going all the way back to a MLK rally in 1967. And seemingly disconnected threads--including a murdered nun, this long-missing man, and a distant cousin who pops up out of nowhere and then as quickly disappears again--gradually wind their way together. Despite the uncomfortable truths she's digging up, Vic stalwartly pursues the truth behind these many mysteries in this addition to Sara Paretsky's popular series.

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