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Blacklist

Sara Paretsky

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#1109 of 8,085 books · #300 in Crime & Thriller

Won the Gold Dagger Award (CWA Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year) (2004).

Blacklist won the New York Times bestseller list. V. I. Warshawski explores secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations. As a favor to her most important client, V. I. agrees to check up on an empty mansion. But instead of a mysterious intruder she discovers a dead man in the ornamental pond—a reporter for an African-American publication whom the suburban cops are quick to dismiss as a suicide. When the man's shattered family hires V. I. to investigate, she is sucked into a Gothic tale of sex, money, and power, leading her back to McCarthy-era blacklists and forward to some of the darker aspects of the Patriot Act. As V. I. finds herself penned in to a smaller and smaller space by an array of people trying to silence her, and before she can untangled the sordid truth, two more people will die—and V.I.'s own life will hang in the balance.

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Publisher
Penguin
ISBN-13
9781101550595
Topics
Investigation and mysterySecrets and betrayal across generationsMcCarthy-era blacklistingRacial injusticePower and corruption

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