The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: 1,800 Headwords: Deadlock

by TriciaHedge (Contributor), SaraParetsky (Author), RowenaAkinyemi (Author), JenniferBassett (Contributor)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $5.17

  V. I. Warshawski, private investigator, Chicago, USA. People imagine private detectives to be tired-looking men in raincoats, but Vic is female. She's tough, beautiful, carries a gun - and goes on asking questions until she gets answers. When her cousin Boom Boom dies in an accident, Vic is naturally upset. She wants to know how and why the accident happened, and she isn't satisfied by the answers she gets. So she goes on asking questions ...and more people start to die.

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $3.32

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $11.74

  'Who're you working for then, Warshawski?' 'My cousin.' 'Boom Boom? He's dead.' 'I know. That's why I'm working for him.' Boom Boom's body was found floating near the docks, chewed up and spat out by a ship's propeller. More like brother and sister than cousins, Vic and Boom Boom looked out for each other. Boom Boom grew up to be an ice hockey hero, and Vic a private eye. And now V.I. Warshawski would like to know how, exactly, her cousin died ...