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Fire sale, Sara Paretsky

eng

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fiction

Fire sale

Sara Paretsky

V. I. Warshawski series, 12

V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes. Chief among these is sabotage at a flag-manufacturing plant where one of the players' mothers works. When an explosion at the plant kills the owner and injures V.I., she investigates and finds herself confronting the quarrelling family that owns the South Side's largest employer, discount behemoth By-Smart