Body Work (V.I. Warshawski Novel)

Signed by author on end paper without inscription. First edition with full number line. Dust Jacket has a signed copy sticker on the front cover. 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 drives on 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 stretch all the way from Iraq to Chicago's South Side.

Product Info

ISBN: 0399156747

ISBN-13: 9780399156748

Publisher: Putnam Adult

Year: 2010-08-31

Type: New

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

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