Hardball - Couverture souple

Paretsky, Sara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0451412931 ISBN 13 : 9780451412935

Editeur : Berkley, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Paretsky Sara

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Chicago politics—past, present, and future—take center stage in this complex and compelling V.I. Warshawki novel from New York Times bestselling author Sara Peretsky.

Tracking down missing persons is part of V.I. Warshawski’s job. But Lamont Gadsden has been missing for more than forty years—last seen heading out into the 1967 blizzard, in the midst of Chicago’s racial unrest. V.I. figured the search would be futile. She didn’t realize it would be lethal...or lead to troubling discoveries about her own family. And when her young cousin Petra disappears, an angry preacher, a jailed gangbanger, and politics from both past and present interconnect—and plunge V.I. into a mystery as unsettling as the ’60s themselves.

A New York Times Notable Crime Book of the Year
One of NPR’s Top Five Crime Novels of the Year

Revue de presse :

She is writing with the kind of passion for social justice that inspired Chandler and Hammett . . . a narrative as gripping as it is emotionally wrenching. (Joan Smith, Sunday Times)

Details are so rich and the dialogue so snappy that the mystery whizzes by. (Guardian)

With the creation of V.I. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky did more than anyone to change the face of contemporary women's fiction. (Express on Sunday)

Tough, complex and moving, Paretsky is still at the top of her crowded genre. (Bookseller)

The thing about Sara Paretsky is, she's tough . . . she doesn't flinch from examining old social injustices others might find too shameful (and too painful) to dig up . . . it's a distinct pleasure to hear her unapologetically strident voice once again (The New York Times)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Berkley
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0451412931
• ISBN 13: 9780451412935
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 576