Toxic Shock (A V. I. Warshawski Novel) by Sara Paretsky (1990-05-03)

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V.I. Warshawski isnt crazy about going back to her old south Chicago neighborhood but a promise is something she always keeps. Caroline a childhood friend has a dying mother and a problem -- after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. But when V.I. starts probing into the past she not only finds out where all the bodies are buried -- she stumbles onto a very new corpse. Now shes stirring up a deadly mix of big business and chemical corruption that may become a toxic shock to a snooper who knows too much. Published in the UK as Toxic Shock and in America as Blood Shot.