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Author: Paretsky, Sara

Crime & mystery

Published on 12 June 2025 by Hodder & Stoughton (Hodder Paperback) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 400 pages
196 x 128 x 30 | 276g

Sometimes, time doesn’t heal all wounds…

When a young woman named Sabrina disappears without a trace in Kansas, private investigator V.I. Warshawski knows she must act fast. But when she discovers Sabrina close to death in a drug house, the locals don’t take kindly to her – and Sabrina’s mother becomes suspicious. V.I. finds herself under the sharp gaze of the FBI – and the men running the county’s opioid distribution. And when a dead body surfaces a few days later, V.I. is pitched headlong into a battle between the locals – with roots that date all the way back to the American Civil War.

The war might be over, but its legacy remains – and V.I.’s survival depends on keeping one step ahead in a game she doesn’t even know she’s playing…