![]() ![]() ![]() Soon Vic has a new client-Harriet Whitby, who thinks that the DuPage county coroner’s verdict of suicide is bunk-and she’s wanted by the FBI and the cops in two jurisdictions, her apartment ransacked, and her phone bugged, all for treading on the wrong toes. The second is a dead reporter: Marc Whitby, who’d been working a story on dancer Kylie Ballantine, a casualty of Olin Taverner’s 1950s witch hunt, for T-Square, a magazine by and for young African-Americans. ![]() The first thing Vic finds is a scared teenager-Catherine Bayard, granddaughter of publishing giant Calvin Bayard and his wife Renee, who along with Geraldine and MacKenzie Graham formed the foundation of enlightened but proper society in old-money New Solway-whose journey down the politically progressive path of her grandparents has landed her in big trouble. She uses it to investigate longtime corporate client Darraugh Graham’s 90-year-old mother’s complaint that she sees lights from her nursing home window in long-abandoned Larchmont Hall next door. ![]() Warshawski gets her First Amendment rights stomped while fencing with obstructive witnesses and unreliable clients.Īs her lover Morrell fights the good fight in Afghanistan, Warshawski ( Total Recall, 2001, etc.) fancies herself a 20th-century Penelope with a p.i. Paretsky exploits post-9/11 paranoia to take up for the little guy once more, as V.I. ![]()
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