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Sara Paretsky Collection: Bitter Medicine / Total Recall / Blacklist (V. I. Warshawski) (Audio Cassette) (Abridged)
Sara Paretsky Collection Bitter Medicine / Total Recall / Blacklist - V. I. Warshawski - Audio Cassette - Abridged Author:Sara Paretsky, Sandra Burr (Narrator) Bitter Medicine: Chicago private eye V. I. Warshawski knows from the start that Consuelo Alvarado's baby is trouble. Consuelo is sixteen. Diabetic. And the daughter of a friend. When she goes into labor too early, even V. I.'s wild drive to get her to the hospital can't save either Consuelo or her child. Soon V. I. i... more »s investigating possible malpractice at the emergency room - and falling for a doctor who works there.
Total Recall: V. I. confronts the machinations of a vast and corrupt industry that trades on the victims of Nazi terrorism; the strange and dubious phenomenon of "recovered memory;" and a personal story that brings V. I. Warshawski into the long-buried past of her dearest friend and mentor, Dr. Lotty Herschel.
Blacklist: Eager for something physical to do in the spirit-exhausting wake of 9/11, V. I. accepts a request from an old client to check up on an empty family mansion; subsequently surprises an intruder in the dark; and, giving chase, topples into a pond. Grasping for something to hold on to, her fingers close around a lifeless human hand.
It is the body of a reporter who had been investigating events of forty-five years earlier, and V. I.'s discovery quickly sucks her into the history of two great Chicago families - their fortunes intertwined by blood, sex, money, and the scandals that may or may not have resulted in murder all these years later.