El jugador de los halcones Negros de Chicago, Boom Boom Warshawski, fue una leyenda del hockey. Más de mil personas asisten a su funeral, consternados al enterarse de que ha resbalado en un muelle y se ha ahogado. La policía se apresura a declarar que ha sido un accidente. Y no les gusta la idea de que V.I. Warshawski, meta su nariz femenina en un caso tan evidente. Pero entre atentados contra su propia vida y tragos de scotch, la intrépida e ingeniosa detective, se abre camino a través de un mundo de silos de cereal y cargueros de mil toneladas. Se introducirá en una senda que le hará descubrir si se está tomando las cosas de un modo demasiado personal o si su adorado Boom Boom fue en realidad asesinado…

Para la detective privada V. I. Warshawski, «Vic», esta nueva aventura comienza durante una conferencia en Chicago, donde manifestantes furiosos están reclamando la devolución de los bienes que les arrebataron en tiempos de la Alemania nazi. De repente, un hombre perturbado se levanta para narrar la historia de su infancia, desgarrada por el Holocausto… Un relato que tendrá consecuencias devastadoras para Lotty Herschel, la íntima amiga y mentora de V. I. Lotty tenía tan sólo nueve años cuando emigró de Austria a Inglaterra, junto con un grupo de niños rescatados del terror nazi, justo antes de que la guerra comenzara.Ahora, inesperadamente, alguien del ayer ha regresado. Con la ayuda de las terapias de regresión psicológica a las que se está sometiendo, Paul Radbuka ha desenterrado su verdadera identidad. Pero ¿es realmente quien dice ser? ¿O es un impostor que ha usurpado una historia ajena? Y si es así, ¿por qué Lotty está tan aterrorizada? Desesperada por ayudar a su amiga, Vic indaga en el pasado de Radbuka. Y a medida que la oscuridad se cierne sobre Lotty, V. I. lucha para decidir en quién confiar cuando los recuerdos de una guerra distorsionan la memoria, mientras se acerca poco a poco a un sobrecogedor descubrimiento de la verdad.

An anthology of stories edited by Sara ParetskyThis eclectic anthology from a variety of female mystery writers has something to please every fan. Editor and contributor Paretsky (V.I. Warshawski series) introduces the anthology with a brief history of Sisters in Crime, an organization formed by Paretsky in 1987 to help boost the profiles of women crime writers. The stories range in tone from Sue Henry's (Jessie Arnold series) haunting, lyrical "Sister Death" to "Murder for Lunch," Carolyn Hart's (Death on Demand series) tale of misunderstandings and murder. Libby Fischer Hellmann (Ellie Foreman series) and Susan Dunlap (Jill Smith series) both tackle the turbulent world of 1960s radicals from different perspectives, with tales of a captured fugitive and violent conflicts with the police. The collection also includes an early story from the late Charlotte MacLeod's impressive body of work, as well as a new story from Dorothy Salisbury Davis, a pioneer in the genre since the 1950s. Mystery fans will delight in reading new pieces from old favorites, as well as discovering new voices from every corner of this diverse genre.

The bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels have dazzled readers and earned the acclaim of critics everywhere. "V.I. Warshawski rules," writes Newsweek, crowning her "the most engaging woman in detective fiction." Of V.I.'s creator, the Chicago Tribune says "Sara Paretsky has no peer."Now Paretsky brings her incomparable storytelling brilliance to her most powerful Warshawski novel yet. Total Recall follows the Chicago P.I. on a road that winds back more than fifty years – and into an intricate maze of wartime lies, heartbreaking secrets, and harrowing retribution.For V.I., the journey begins with a national conference in downtown Chicago, where angry protesters are calling for the recovery of Holocaust assets. Replayed on the evening news is the scene of a slight man who has stood up at the conference to tell an astonishing story of a childhood shattered by the Holocaust – a story that has devastating consequences for V.I.'s cherished friend and mentor, Lotty Herschel.Lotty was a girl of nine when she emigrated from Austria to England, one of a group of children wrenched from their parents and saved from the Nazi terror just before the war broke out. Now stunningly – impossibly – it appears that someone from that long-lost past may have returned.With the help of a recovered-memory therapist, Paul Radbuka has recently learned his true identity. But is he who he claims to be? Or is he a cunning impostor who has usurped someone else's history… a history Lotty has tried to forget for over fifty years?As a frightened V.I. watches her friend unravel, she sets out to help in the only way she can: by investigating Radbuka's past. Already working on a difficult case for a poor family cheated of their life insurance, she tries to balance Lotty's needs with her client's, only to find that both are spiraling into a whirlpool of international crime that stretches from Switzerland and Germany to Chicago 's South Side.As the atrocities of the past reach out to engulf the living, V.I. struggles to decide whose memories of a terrible war she can trust, and moves closer to a chilling realization of the truth – a truth that almost destroys her oldest friend.With fierce emotional power, Sara Paretsky has woven a gripping and morally complex novel of crime and punishment, memory and illusion. Destined to become a suspense classic, Total Recall proves once again the daring and compelling genius of Sara Paretsky.

La investigadora privada V. I. Warshawski, experta en kárate y tiradora mortal, es contratada por el vicepresidente de un importante banco de Chicago para que encuentre a la novia de su hijo Peter, misteriosamente desaparecida.Cuando Warshawski encuentra el cadáver de Peter, su cliente se esfuma. Sin embargo, la detective se niega a abandonar la investigación, y halla una pista que la convierte en la principal enemiga de una peligrosa organización integrada por asesinos a sueldo y pistoleros sin escrúpulos.

The teenage tennis star had a frighteningly brutal trainer-her father. So nobody cried when he got strangled in the women's locker room. Now V.I. Warshawski wants to clear the number one suspect-who was showering alone at the time in "Strung Out". And in "Skin Deep", after his trip to the salon the stranger wasn't looking so good. Maybe it was the poison facial. V.I. Warshawski tries a few new creams herself while she looks for somebody, anybody connected to this guy.