Bitter Medicine - V.I. Warshawski

Informationen zum Autor Hailed by the Washington Post as “the definition of perfection in the genre,” Sara Paretsky is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels, including the renowned V.I. Warshawski series. She is one of only four living writers to have received both the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain. She lives in Chicago. Klappentext Private eye V.I. Warshawski finds herself up against rampant corruption in Chicago’s hospitals in the fourth novel in Sara Paretsky’s New York Times bestselling series. Young, diabetic, and pregnant, Consuelo Alvarado is lucky to have a mentor in V.I. Warshawski. But not even V.I. can help when Consuelo goes into premature labor in a remote suburb; mother and baby both die in the nearby hospital. When a young resident starts raising questions about Consuelo’s treatment, what seemed like a tragic accident turns into something far more disturbing. What connection could the hospital have with Chicago’s street gangs? What heavy secret is the hospital’s neonatologist carrying? The questions the detective asks cut to the heart of everything that is troubling about the practice of medicine in America. Can V.I. sort out the answers before she herself ends up in the hospital morgue? Zusammenfassung Private eye V.I. Warshawski finds herself up against rampant corruption in Chicago’s hospitals in the fourth novel in Sara Paretsky’s New York Times bestselling series. Young, diabetic, and pregnant, Consuelo Alvarado is lucky to have a mentor in V.I. Warshawski. But not even V.I. can help when Consuelo goes into premature labor in a remote suburb; mother and baby both die in the nearby hospital. When a young resident starts raising questions about Consuelo’s treatment, what seemed like a tragic accident turns into something far more disturbing. What connection could the hospital have with Chicago’s street gangs? What heavy secret is the hospital’s neonatologist carrying? The questions the detective asks cut to the heart of everything that is troubling about the practice of medicine in America. Can V.I. sort out the answers before she herself ends up in the hospital morgue? ...

Product details

• Authors: Sara Paretsky
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.08.2021
• EAN: 9780063092648
• ISBN: 978-0-06-309264-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 204 mm x 20 mm
• Series: V.I. Warshawski Novels
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical fiction, Short Stories, United States of America, USA, Horror and supernatural fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, FICTION: Ghost, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, FICTION: Historical / 19th Century / American Civil War Era