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Body Work; A V.I. Warshawski novel [FIRST EDITION]

Body Work; A V.I. Warshawski novel [FIRST EDITION]

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Body Work; A V.I. Warshawski novel [FIRST EDITION]

by PARETSKY, Sara [SIGNED]; [Lisa Madigan's copy]

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0399156747
ISBN 13
9780399156748
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Putnam, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Association copy. This is first edition of Paretsky's Chicago police thriller inscribed to and previously owned by (famous/infamous) Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan: "Lisa Madigan, you really are the best thing that's happened to Illinois probably since Lincoln. Good wishes always, Sara Paretsky, 06.06.2011." This Chicago bookseller withholds his opinion on that subject, but both Paretsky and Madigan are undeniably two names that carry a lot of weight in Chicago today.

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The audacious new V. I. Warshawski novel from the New York Times -bestselling author "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.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
380
Title
Body Work; A V.I. Warshawski novel [FIRST EDITION]
Author
PARETSKY, Sara [SIGNED]; [Lisa Madigan's copy]
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
very good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0399156747
ISBN 13
9780399156748
Publisher
Putnam
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2010

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