Book description
Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional
exploits thrill girls all over the world. When tweens in Chicago's
Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they
stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a
vampire-style slaying. The girls include daughters of some of Chicago's
most powerful families: the grandfather of one, Chaim Salanter, is one
of the world's wealthiest men; the mother of another, Sophy Durango, is
the Illinois Democratic candidate for Senate. For V. I. Warshawski, the
questions multiply faster than the answers. Is the killing linked to a
hostile media campaign against Sophy Durango? Or to Chaim Salanter's
childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania? As V. I. struggles for answers,
she finds herself fighting enemies who are all too human.
'Plotted with all Paretsky's customary generosity, this standout
entry harnesses her heroine's righteous anger to some richly deserving
targets, all linked together in a truly amazing finale.'
Sara Paretsky, the author of the V. I. Warshawski novels, was named
2011 Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. She is the winner
of many awards, including the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime
achievement from the British Crime Writers' Association and the CWA Gold
Dagger for
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