Fallout

Before there was Lisbeth Salander, before there was Stephanie Plum, there was V.I. Warshawski In Fallout , Paretsky takes her hero--Victoria Iphigenia by birth, V.I. by profession, and Vic to her friends--on her very first case out of Chicago, when the hunt for a vanished film student and a faded Hollywood star leads her to Kansas. Accompanied by her dog, V.I. tracks the pair through a university town, across fields dotted with Cold War-era missile silos . . . and into a past riven by long-simmering racial tensions. She hopes her search will yield the key to the mysteries of the present, but every answer V.I. finds unveils another puzzling question--and leads to more dead bodies. And in her most baffling case to date, not even the seasoned V.I. is safe.