Dead Land
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 416
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9781473624481
- Utgivelsesår: 2021
- Bidragsyter: Paretsky, Sara
''A novel full of surprises...It''s vintage Paretsky, and hard to put down'' - The Sunday Times
Named Top 10 Thriller of 2020 by Kirkus
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 Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects.
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.
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