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Description edit
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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- V.I. Warshawski: Liberal leaning private investigator (and attorney) with many Polish relatives in Chicago. Ex husband is a very wealthy managing partner of a top white shoe Chicago law firm. Seems like she is around 50, but still turns heads. Probably would turn mine!
- Chaim Salanter: Young Jewish boy's family is sent to Nazi death camps, but he escapes and becomes multi billionaire in Chicago.
- Dick Yarborough: V.I.'s ex-husband and high powered lawyer.
- Xavier Jurgens: Employee at a mental hospital in Downers Grove.
- Jana Shatka: Jurgen's lover. Eastern European, bilking Social Security.
- Maggie Tulliver: Add a description of this character.
- Sewall Ashford
- Terry Finchley
- Doris Kaitano
- Elizabeth Milkova
- Rhonda Shankman
- Gavin Aikers
- Sandra
- Malina
- Faith Ashford
- Kira Dudek
- Eloise Napier
- Mr. Contreras
- Freeman Carter
- Jewel Kim
- Magda Lawlor
- Terence
- Gabriel Eycks
- Vernon Mulliner
- Deirdre Zhou
- Wren Balfour
- Boom-Boom Warshawski
- Chantal
- Jessie Morgenstern
- Wade Lawlor
- Ted Austin
- Max Loewenthal
- Christa Velpel
- Petra Warshawski
- Alvina Northlake
- Virginia Lawlor
- Louis Ormond
- Anstey
- Thor Janssen
- Netta Glover
- Eddie Chez
- Johnny Unitas
- Luana Giorgini
- Boadicea Jones
- Todd Blakely
- Colin
- Diane Ovech
- Lily Hammerfield
- Nolan Spaulding
- Ms. Dudek
- Tania Metzger
- Fred
- Eric Waxman
- Henry Knaub
- Les Strangwell
- Teodoro Martinez
- Rachel Lyle
- Leydon Ashford
- Harold Weekes
- Beata Mizwa
- Mrs. Coltrain
- Philip Poynter
- Jackie Beringer
- Nick Vishnikov
- Lotty Herschel
- Sam Spade
- Mavis Chez
- Iva Wuchnik
- Celeste
- Julia Salanter
- Ruthie
- Lisa Cunningham
- Dean Knaub
- Mother Ashford
- Cosimo Draco
- Rafe
- Pierce
- Dr. Sophy Durango
- Mr. Bevilacqua
- Miles Wuchnik
- Joseph Parecki
- Al Ordonez
- Gabriella
- MR. WEEKES
- Link Beringer
- Jake Thibaut
- Trina Ashford
- Helen Kendrick
- Arielle Zitter
- Perry Shankman
- Murray Ryerson
- Tommy Glover
- Garrett McIntosh
- Lucy Dudek
- Saul Feldtman
- Stan Chalmers
- Nia Durango
- Tyler
- Sal Barthele
Setting & Locations edit
Chicago and surrounding area, Vilnius Lithuania.
- Ruhetal: Mental hospital in Downers Grove, a western Chicago suburb.
- Chicago: V.I.'s home town.
- Mount Moriah
- Vilna
- Illinois
- Lithuania
- Burbank: Chicago suburb.
- Danville: East central Illinois city.
- Europe
- Berwyn: Chicago suburb, changing from eastern European immigrant to hispanic in nature.
- Poland
- Kiev
- Wisconsin
- London
- Tampier Lake Township: Fictional south suburb of Chicago.
- Israel
- Downers Grove: Village where the Ruhetal mental hospital is set.
- Texas
First Sentence edit
Rain had turned the streets a shiny black.
Table of Contents edit
1. Graveyard Shift
2. In the Garden of Bad and Worse
3. Bedtime Stories
4. Charms - or Something
5. Stimulating News - or Is It Malice?
6. Leaks Everywhere
7. Friends I'd Rather Not Have
8. Motherly Advice
9. Cable News
10. Politics as Usual?
11. Here a Mob, There a Mob
12. Murder in the Cathedral
13. A Long Pitch
14. One Armagnac Too Many
15. A Hard Day's Day
16. Angel Mother - Not
17. Cleaning Out the Dead
18. The Writing on the Wall
19. The Augean Stables
20. Chatter in the Peaceful Valley
21. Something Was Happening Here but You Don't Know What It Is
22. Wade's World
23. A Reporter's Lot is Not a Happy One
24. Talking to the Ex. Sigh
25. In the Huddle
26. Car Talk
27. Just a Flesh Wound
28. Book Carvings
29. Talking to a Special Sister
30. Lost Daughter
31. Where oh, Where Did the Daughter Go?
32. Trunk Line
33. Suicide or Murder: Take Your Pick
34. Drug Req
35. A Hard Day's Hunt - with Peasants
36. Enter a Billionaire
37. Paranoid Delusion?
38. Hot on a Trail - or Something
39. Chasing Shadows
40. Lawyer Fees: Impressive!
41. A Step Ahead
42. Old News
43. Alas, Poor Sister
44. Neighborhood Gossip
45. Fire Trucks, Fire Trucks
46. What's in a Picture?
47. Cleaning Up for a Change
48. The Purloined Photo
49. In the Aquarium
50. Gone Fishing
51. V.I.'s Last Case
52. Raising the Dead
53. Vampire's Don't Kill Easy
Series & Lists edit
This is book 15 of 16 in V I Warshawski Mysteries. (standard series)
Preceded by Body Work.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Sara Paretsky (Author)
First Edition edit
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Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: January 3, 2012
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 431
Publisher: Add the publisher.
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Publication Date: January 3, 2012
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 431
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
Notes for Parents edit
Reading Level: Young AdultsThis book is appropriate for any reader who would pick it up, start reading, and want to continue.
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