Sara Paretsky

Killing Orders Sara Paretsky

Killing Orders, V. I. Warshawski s third adventure, starts when her great-aunt Rosa summons the detective to her cold suburban home. Rosa made V. I. s childhood miserable and the detective resents the command to help her aunt prove she didn't embezzle five million dollars from a local Dominican priory. All hell breaks loose when a mysterious opponent tries to take Vic off the case by throwing acid in her eyes and burning down her apartment. And when a friend who s involved in the case is brutally murdered, it begins to look as if Vic hasn t got a prayer. But Warshawski continues to follow every lead, even when they point to some pretty unorthodox conclusions: Perhaps the Dominicans are covering up a financial scandal. Maybe the whole conspiracy is under the patronage of an international conglomerate, or of Don Pasquale, king of the Chicago mob. Worst of all, someone who s close to Vic could be involved her darkly handsome English lover, Roger Ferrant, or even Aunt Rosa herself."