![]() ![]() Mystery Guild selection Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates author tour. resolutely forges her own trail, maintaining the spunk and humor that have earned her a large, devoted following. While everyone else in this complicated, occasionally tedious, plot urges her toward traditional female paths, V.I. is beset by the paternalistic interference of the Chicago police detective who had been her deceased father's best friend. ![]() Gradually tying these events together, V.I. The friend's body is found, along with V.I.'s wallet, at a major downtown construction site soon after the detective is bewildered by mysterious warnings not to get involved with the political campaign of a Hispanic woman to whom she has pledged support. Trouble erupts when her sweet, crafty and alcoholic aunt Elena, burned out of her SRO hotel, appears with a young hooker friend at V.I.'s Northwest Side apartment. contends with ambitious politicians, a construction-business scam, a corrupt cop and the best intentions of her closest family friends. ![]() The Better Sister: A Novel Check Price The Better Sister by Alafair Burke: Burke. The sixth adventure of Chicago private eye Victoria Iphenigia Warshawski begins with arson and proceeds to homicide as the intrepid V.I. Burn Marks by Sara Paretsky: This was the first book I read where the woman could be a believable kick-ass hero. ![]()
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