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Publisher Marketing: V. I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V. I. takes over coaching duties of the girls basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms, who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes. Through young Josie Dorrado, V. I. meets the girl s mother, who voices her worries about sabotage in the little flag manufacturing plant where she works. The biggest employer on the South Side, discount-store behemoth By-Smart, pays even less, and Ms. Dorrado doesn t know how she ll support her four children if the flag plant shuts down. The elder Dorrado s fears are realized when the plant explodes; V. I. is injured and the owner is killed. As V. I. begins to investigate, she finds herself confronting the Bysen family, who own the By-Smart company. Founder William Buffalo Bill Bysen, now in his eighties, has four sons who quarrel with each other and with him; the oldest, Young Mr. William, is close to sixty and furious that his father doesn t cede more power to him. And then, there s Billy the Kid, Young Mr. William s nineteen-year-old son, whose Christian idealism puts him on a collision course with his father, his grandfather, and the company as a whole. When Billy runs away with Josie Dorrado, V. I. is squeezed between the needs of two very different families. As she tries to find the errant teenagers, and to track down a particularly cruel murderer, her own life is almost forfeit in the swamps that lie under the city of Chicago." Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2005 pg. 566 (EAN 9780399152795, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Publishers Weekly 05/16/2005 pg. 36 (EAN 9780399152795, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 06/15/2005 pg. 64 (EAN 9780399152795, Hardcover) Ingram Advance 07/01/2005 pg. 27 (EAN 9780399152795, Hardcover) Booklist 06/01/2005 pg. 1712 (EAN 9780399152795, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 02/01/2005 pg. 58 (EAN 9780399152795, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 718 (EAN 9780399152795, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 686 (EAN 9780399152795, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 801 (EAN 9780399152795, Hardcover) Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 155 (EAN 9781593356729, MP3 CD) Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 155 (EAN 9781596002982, Compact Disc) Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 155 (EAN 9781587888724, Analog Audio Cassette) Publishers Weekly 09/05/2005 pg. 58 (EAN 9781587888755, Compact Disc) Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 155 (EAN 9781587888755, Compact Disc) Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 155 (EAN 9781587888762, Compact Disc) 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:  Burr, Sandra Burr is a freelance voiceover talent.