{"product_id":"pay-dirt-a-vi-warshawski-novel-isbn-9780063010949","title":"Pay Dirt: A V.I. Warshawski Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLegendary female detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a mystery with roots dating back to the Civil War in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller Sara Paretsky.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eV .I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her intelligence, her humor, her unflinching courage, and her love of good coffee. But even the strongest people sometimes need a break to recharge, so her friends send her to Kansas for a weekend of college basketball where Angela, one of her protégées, is playing. And that’s where trouble finds V.I.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSabrina, one of Angela’s roommates, disappears and V.I. agrees to try to find her. As a seasoned private investigator, finding a missing person in a city where she knows few people and doesn’t have her trusted contacts is hard, but not as hard as the brutally negative reaction to the detective from some of the locals. When V.I. finds Sabrina close to death in a remote house, she lands herself in the FBI’s crosshairs and faces a violent online backlash. The men running the county’s opioid distribution are also not happy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscovering a dead body in the same house a few days later, V.I. is pitched headlong into a complex local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War. She finds that today’s combatants are just as willing as opponents in the 1860s to kill to settle their differences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eV.I.’s survival depends on keeping one step ahead of players in a game she never intended to play, before the clock runs down.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Legendary V.I. Warshawski is as dogged and ferocious as ever. So is Sara Paretsky, who is at the top of her crime novel game.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eC.J. Box\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"History buffs will appreciate Paretsky’s exploration of Kansas’s violent past, while V.I. fans will be eager to read the latest in the award-winning series (after \u003cem\u003eOverboard\u003c\/em\u003e).\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Paretsky’s phenomenal gifts for significant and riveting stories, lacerating dialogue, rich psychology, and barbed humor reach tornadic force.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist on Pay Dirt (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sara Paretsky’s gloriously kick-ass private eye, V.I. ‘Vic’ Warshawski, is . . . the definition of perfection in the genre.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post on Dead Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"S\u003c\/em\u003ewift and superb.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeattle Times on Dead Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sara Paretsky’s legendary P.I. is at the top of her game.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTess Gerritsen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sara Paretsky is a legend . . . If you haven’t read her yet, now is the time.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarlan Coben\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“V.I. Warshawski is one of my all-time favorite investigators. Doesn’t get any better than this!” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLisa Gardner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An author of matchless intelligence, craft, and power. This is why Sara Paretsky reigns as one of the all-time greats.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKarin Slaughter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Among today’s P.I.’s, nobody comes close to Warshawski.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Revel in the superb pacing, the well-developed characters and the crisp dialogue from one of the most consistently excellent writers in the genre.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Chicago’s V.I. Warshawski is on top form.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeattle Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “A proper hero for these times . . . To us, V.I. is perfect.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review, on Dead Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890891452645,"sku":"NP9780063010949","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063010949.jpg?v=1730234283","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/pay-dirt-a-vi-warshawski-novel-isbn-9780063010949","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}