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      Body Work

      by Sara Paretsky
      Published
      Sep 2010
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      Private Investigator Private Investigator
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      559
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      A V.I. Warshawski Mystery Book 15

      About This Book

      "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.

      Series Placement

      Book 15
      🟡 Mostly Standalone
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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Cozy Mystery Hard-Boiled Private Investigator

      Characters & Occupations

      Women Sleuths

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