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Chicago's V. I. Warshawski confronts crooked politicians and buried family secrets in the gritty new book from New York Times - bestselling writer Sara Paretsky. No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a attack, but there are many she'd be happy to avoid. High on that list is tangling with Chicago politics bosses. Yet that's precisely what she eventually ends up doing when she responds to Frank Guzzo's plea for help. For six stormy weeks back senior high school, V. I. thought she was in love with Frank. He split up with her, she gone off to school, he started driving a car pickup trucks for Bagby Haulage. She forgot about him before day his mother was convicted of bludgeoning his youngster sister, Annie, to fatality. Stella Guzzo was an upset, uncooperative prisoner and performed a complete twenty-five years for her daughter's murder. Recently released from prison, Stella wants exoneration, so Frank asks V. I. for help. V. I. doesn't want to get involved. Stella hated the Warshawskis, in particular V. I.'s adored mother, Gabriella. But life has been hard on Frank and on V. I.'s other years as a child friends, still trapped on the hardscrabble roadways around the lifeless steel mills, and V. I. agrees to ask a few pre-determined questions. Those questions lead her directly into the vipers' nest of Illinois politics she's wanted to avoid. When V. I. takes a beating at a young ones meeting in her old hood, her main question becomes whether she will live long enough to find answers.