Deadlock

Marc Notes: Unabridged.; Compact discs.; Director, David Colacci.; 1; Performed by Susan Ericksen.; V. I. Warshawki, private investigator, Chicago, USA. People imagine private detectives to be tired-looking men in raincoats, but Vic is female. She's tough, beautiful, carries a gun-- and goes on asking questions until she gets answers. When her cousin Boom Boom dies in an accident, Vic is naturally upset. She wants to know how and why the accident happpened, and she isn't satisfied by the answers she gets. So she goes on asking questions .. and more people start to die.. Publisher Marketing: Deadlock, V. I. Warshawski s second case, involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry. Once again the subject is murder this time the accidental death of Boom-Boom Warshawski, an ex-hockey star and V. I. s beloved cousin, who fell or was pushed off a rain-slicked pier on Chicago s busy waterfront. Convinced that Boom-Boom was in fact killed because of information he had uncovered about criminal doings on the shipping lines, V. I. begins a long and frustrating search for her cousin s murderer. In the course of an investigation that takes her to a remote Canadian port city and a calamitous trip on a sabotaged freighter, V. I. finds all too many possible candidates for the killer, including a grain company executive involved in extortion; and rival heads of two shippers, one of whom is being blackmailed for his criminal past; a hockey player whose specialty is graft; and Boom-Boom s lover, an icily beautiful dancer with expensive tastes in men and merchandise." Review Citations: Beyond the Cover Author Interv 10/01/2000 pg. 13 (EAN 9780440213321, Mass Market Paperbound) Contributor Bio:  Paretsky, Sara Sara Paretsky is the author of eighteen books, including her renowned V. I. Warshawski novels. She was named 2011 Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, and is also the recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award given by the British Crime Writers Association. She lives in Chicago. Contributor Bio:  Ericksen, Susan Susan Ericksen lives on the East Coast, where she performs on stage and on television. An Audie Award and "AudioFile" Earphones Award winner, she has recorded many audiobooks.