Critical Mass: V.I. Warshawski 16

The sixteenth V.I. Warshawski thriller from one of America's greatest female crime writers, combining contemporary issues, the fight against injustice and fast-paced suspense.

Private Eye V.I. Warshawski is roused one morning by an SOS from a woman on a farm south of Chicago. When V.I. gets there, she finds no woman - but a dead man in a cornfield, his body savagely mutilated.

V.I. is happy to leave the case to the local sheriff: it looks like a falling out among meth dealers. But back in Chicago, she learns that the missing woman is a protégée of her oldest friend and confidante, Dr Lotty Herschel, and is compelled to investigate.

What V.I. uncovers pulls her into a world of nuclear secrets and high-stakes computing, with roots reaching back to the Second World War. The detective soon finds herself in a hall of mirrors where she can''t tell reality from video games, and her life is on the line. For V.I., this is her most profound, and terrifying, adventure yet . . .

• | Author: Sara Paretsky
• | Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• | Publication Date: Aug 28, 2014
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781444758702
• | ISBN-10: 1444758705