Dead Land Av Sara Paretsky

<p><b><font></b><b>''A novel full of surprises...</b><b>It''s vintage Paretsky, and hard to put down'' - <i>The Sunday Times </i></b><br><br><b>Named Top 10 Thriller of 2020 by <i>Kirkus</i></font></b><br><br>Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, but V.I. Warshawski knows its politics: "Pay to Play". Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects.<br><br>Private investigator V.I. gets pulled into one of these clandestine deals when her impetuous goddaughter Bernie tries to rescue a famed singer-songwriter, now living on the streets. Thanks to Bernie, V.I. finds herself in the path of some developers whose negotiating strategy is simple: they bulldoze - or kill - any obstacle in their way.<br><br>Questions pile up almost as fast as the dead bodies. When she tries to answer them, the detective finds a terrifying conspiracy stretching from Chicago''s parks to a cover-up of the dark chapters in the A