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Fire Sale Mass market paperbound - 2006

by Sara Paretsky

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Warshawski takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school. Shortly after the mother of one of the players voices concerns about sabotage in the manufacturing plant where she works, a deadly explosion occurs. A "Chicago Tribune" Best Book of the Year. Premium edition.

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A conscience can weigh a PI down more than the heaviest firearm—and get her into more trouble too. It’s that nagging conscience that makes V. I. Warshawski agree to fill in as coach for the girls’ basketball team at her South Chicago alma mater—which in turn leads her to the headquarters of By-Smart, the global retail empire where V. I. hopes to get some desperately needed funds for the struggling squad. But conscience seems to be in short supply at By-Smart… with the exception of Billy Bysen, the earnest teenage grandson of the chain’s gruff, tightfisted founder. And when Billy disappears—along with a mysterious document much desired by By-Smart’s management team—V. I. is hurled onto a twisted, body-strewn path that runs through Chicago’s dirtiest places and reveals some of its dirtiest secrets.…

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Takes off with a bang--literally...V. I. remains a paragon among PIs, and Fire Sale is one of Paretsky's best books yet."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A conscience can weigh a PI down more than the heaviest firearm--and get her into more trouble too. It's that nagging conscience that makes V. I. Warshawski agree to fill in as coach for the girls' basketball team at her South Chicago alma mater--which in turn leads her to the headquarters of By-Smart, the global retail empire where V. I. hopes to get some desperately needed funds for the struggling squad.

But conscience seems to be in short supply at By-Smart...with the exception of Billy Bysen, the earnest teenage grandson of the chain's gruff, tightfisted founder. And when Billy disappears--along with a mysterious document much desired by By-Smart's management team--V. I. is hurled onto a twisted, body-strewn path that runs through Chicago's dirtiest places and reveals some of its dirtiest secrets...

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Going back to South Chicago has always felt to me like a return to death.

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  • Title Fire Sale
  • Author Sara Paretsky
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Edition Unstated
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berkley Books, New York
  • Publication date 2006-07-05
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780451218995 / 045121899X
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.56 x 4.18 x 1.33 in (19.20 x 10.62 x 3.38 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
    • Geographic Orientation: Illinois
    • Locality: Chicago, Illinois
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Chicago (Ill.)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Sara Paretsky is the New York Times bestselling author of the renowned V.I. Warshawski novels. Her many awards include the Cartier Diamond Dagger Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Crime Writers' Association and the 2011 Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. She lives in Chicago.
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