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      Hardball

      by Sara Paretsky
      Published
      Oct 2009
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      Private Investigator Private Investigator
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      553
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      A V.I. Warshawski Mystery Book 14

      About This Book

      Chicago's 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 who's been missing for four decades, a search that she figured would be futile becomes lethal. Old skeletons from the city's racially charged history, as well as haunting family secrets-her own and those of the elderly sisters who hired her-rise up to brush her back from the plate with a vengeance. A young cousin whom she's 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 city's 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.

      Series Placement

      Book 14
      🟡 Mostly Standalone
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      Suspense

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      Hard-Boiled Private Investigator

      Characters & Occupations

      Women Sleuths

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