Chicago politics take centre stage in a breakout VI Warshawski novel, from a crime author who writes with unbeatable pace and a passion for justice

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Schauplatz Chicago: Vic Warshawski in ihrem fünften Fall bei der Arbeit, ihr Markenzeichen: Allein gegen den Rest der Welt mit einer scharfen Zunge.
Die Privatdetektivin Vic Warshawski ermittelt in einem privaten Routinefall. Die Nachbarstochter Caroline bittet sie um Nachforschungen. Sie will endlich wissen, wer ihr Vater ist. Doch Vic stößt auf undurchdringliches Schweigen. Gleichzeitig wird eine Freundin tot im Sumpf aufgefunden. Als auch Vic im Sumpf landet und sich retten kann, muss sie feststellen, dass hinter dem Rätsel dieser Vaterschaft eine ganz andere, wesentlich brisantere Affäre steckt.»Ein Spitzenkrimi: Mit scharfem Schritt, immer einen flotten Spruch auf den Lippen, geht Vic ran an die Sache und riskiert dabei Kopf und Kragen« Brigitte

Urgence (V.I. Warshawski, #5)

The bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels have dazzled readers and earned the acclaim of critics everywhere. "V.I. Warshawski rules," writes "Newsweek," crowning her "the most engaging woman in detective fiction." Of V.I.'s creator, the "Chicago Tribune" says "Sara Paretsky has no peer." Now Paretsky brings her incomparable storytelling brilliance to her most powerful Warshawski novel yet. Total Recall follows the Chicago P.I. on a road that winds back more than fifty years -- and into an intricate maze of wartime lies, heartbreaking secrets, and harrowing retribution. For V.I., the journey begins with a national conference in downtown Chicago, where angry protesters are calling for the recovery of Holocaust assets. Replayed on the evening news is the scene of a slight man who has stood up at the conference to tell an astonishing story of a childhood shattered by the Holocaust -- a story that has devastating consequences for V.I.'s cherished friend and mentor, Lotty Herschel. Lotty was a girl of nine when she emigrated from Austria to England, one of a group of children wrenched from their parents and saved from the Nazi terror just before the war broke out. Now stunningly -- impossibly -- it appears that someone from that long-lost past may have returned. With the help of a recovered-memory therapist, Paul Radbuka has recently learned his true identity. But is he who he claims to be? Or is he a cunning impostor who has usurped someone else's history ... a history Lotty has tried to forget for over fifty years? As a frightened V.I. watches her friend unravel, she sets out to help in the only way she can: by investigating Radbuka's past. Already working on a difficultcase for a poor family cheated of their life insurance, she tries to balance Lotty's needs with her client's, only to find that both are spiraling into a whirlpool of international crime that stretches from Switzerland and Germany to Chicago's South Side. As the atrocities of the past reach out to engulf the living, V.I. struggles to decide whose memories of a terrible war she can trust, and moves closer to a chilling realization of the truth -- a truth that almost destroys her oldest friend. With fierce emotional power, Sara Paretsky has woven a gripping and morally complex novel of crime and punishment, memory and illusion. Destined to become a suspense classic, Total Recall proves once again the daring and compelling genius of Sara Paretsky.

Refus De Mémoire (V.I. Warshawski, #10)

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Refus de memoire

C'est au cours d'une conférence sur la restitution des biens volés aux Juifs pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale qu'un certain Paul Radbuka fait un jour des déclarations fracassantes sur son passé. Grâce à une psychothérapeute spécialisée dans la remémoration, il aurait en effet découvert qu'il est Juif et qu'enfant, il aurait été déporté au camp de concentration de Theresienstadt. Qui plus est, ayant appris la présence de Lotty Herschel et de son ami Max Loewenthal à la conférence, il exige de leur être présenté car, croit-il, ils appartiennent à sa famille qui a tout entière disparu au cours de la Shoah.
La célèbre détective privée V.I. Warshawski, qui, elle, enquête sur un vol à l'assurance aux très étranges ramifications internationales, décide alors de faire la lumière sur ces déclarations qui sont en train de précipiter son amie Lotty dans l'horreur d'une enfance qu'elle veut oublier.

Urgence

Private eye V. I. Warshawski finds herself up against rampant corruption in Chicago's hospitals in the fourth novel in Sara Paretsky's New York Times bestselling series. Young, diabetic, and pregnant, Consuelo Alvarado is lucky to have a mentor in V. I. Warshawski. But not even V. I. can help when Consuelo goes into premature labor in a remote suburb; mother and baby both die in the nearby hospital. When a young resident starts raising questions about Consuelo's treatment, what seemed like a tragic accident turns into something far more disturbing. What connection could the hospital have with Chicago's street gangs? What heavy secret is the hospital's neonatologist carrying? The questions the detective asks cut to the heart of everything that is troubling about the practice of medicine in America. Can V. I. sort out the answers before she herself ends up in the hospital morgue?

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