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Total Recall : a Vi. I. Warshawski novel

The bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels have dazzled readers and earned the acclaim of critics everywhere. "V.I. Warshawski rules," writes Newsweek, crowning her "the most engaging woman in detective fiction." Of V.I.'s creator, the Chicago Tribune says "Sara Paretsky has no peer." Now Paretsky brings her incomparable storytelling brilliance to her most powerful Warshawski novel yet. Total Recall follows the Chicago P.I. on a road that winds back more than fifty years -- and into an intricate maze of wartime lies, heartbreaking secrets, and harrowing retribution. For V.I., the journey begins with a national conference in downtown Chicago, where angry protesters are calling for the recovery of Holocaust assets. Replayed on the evening news is the scene of a slight man who has stood up at the conference to tell an astonishing story of a childhood shattered by the Holocaust -- a story that has devastating consequences for V.I.'s cherished friend ...

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  • "He came from out of the blue -- a man with an astonishing story of a childhood shattered by the Holocaust, and it's a story that has devastating consequences for V. I. Warshawski's cherished friend, Dr. Lotty Herschel, too. For now, the past that Lotty has struggled to forget has come back to haunt her, flooding her with memories that could destroy her life. And for V.I., who's already working on a case for a poor family cheated out of their life insurance, the need to help a friend will plunge her into a whirlpool of corporate intrigue and international insurance fraud that preys on the helpless -- and does not stop at murder."
  • "The bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels have dazzled readers and earned the acclaim of critics everywhere. "V.I. Warshawski rules," writes Newsweek, crowning her "the most engaging woman in detective fiction." Of V.I.'s creator, the Chicago Tribune says "Sara Paretsky has no peer." Now Paretsky brings her incomparable storytelling brilliance to her most powerful Warshawski novel yet. Total Recall follows the Chicago P.I. on a road that winds back more than fifty years -- and into an intricate maze of wartime lies, heartbreaking secrets, and harrowing retribution. For V.I., the journey begins with a national conference in downtown Chicago, where angry protesters are calling for the recovery of Holocaust assets. Replayed on the evening news is the scene of a slight man who has stood up at the conference to tell an astonishing story of a childhood shattered by the Holocaust -- a story that has devastating consequences for V.I.'s cherished friend ..."@en
  • "A V.I. Warshawski novel."@en
  • "In Total recall, Sara Paretsky brings together several disparate plots in one gripping story. This powerfully suspenseful novel 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."
  • "In Total recall, Sara Paretsky brings together several disparate plots in one gripping story. This powerfully suspenseful novel 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."@en
  • "Een vrouwelijke detective en haar vrienden worden lastiggevallen door een man van wie ze betwijfelt of hij een overlevende van de Holocaust is."
  • "Au cours d'une conférence sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Paul Radbuka fait des révélations fracassantes sur son passé : il serait Juif et aurait été déporté à Teresienstadt. Il croit également que Lotty Herschel et son mari présents à la conférence appartiennent à sa famille. La détective V.I. Warshawski, une amie de Lotty, décide d'enquêter sur ces déclarations qui plongent Lotty dans l'horreur."
  • "While investigating a case of insurance fraud perpetrated on a poor family from Chicago's South Side, private detective V.I. Washawski is called in to assist her dear friend and mentor, Dr. Lotty Hershel, who is faced with the appearance of a mysterious man who may have a terrifying link to Lotty's past and dangerous implications for her present."@en
  • ""Total Recall" follows V.I. Warshawski on a road that winds back more than 50 years into an intricate maze of wartime lies, heartbreaking secrets and harrowing retribution."
  • "Private investigator V.I. Warshawski agrees to help her friend uncover the secret his family is hiding from him, but as V.I. learns more about the past, the terror of the Holocaust comes back to haunt her."@en
  • "V.I. Warshawski travels back more than fifty years into a maze of wartime lies, secrets and retribution...The journey begins with a national conference in Chicago, where angry protesters are calling for the recovery of Holocaust assets. Replayed on the evening news is a man who has told his terrible story of a childhood shattered by the Holocaust - a story that has devastating consequences for V.I.'s cherished friend, Lotty Herschel. Lotty was part of a Kindertransport - children sent abroad by their desperate parents to save them from the Nazi terror. Now, stunningly - impossibly - it appears that someone from that long-lost past may have returned. But is Paul Radbuka who he claims to be - or a cunning impostor?"

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Thriller fiction"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Large type books"

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  • "Muistin ansassa"@fi
  • "Total Recall : a Vi. I. Warshawski novel"@en
  • "Refus de mémoire"
  • "Total recall : a V.I. Warshawski novel"@en
  • "Total recall : a V.I. Warshawski novel"
  • "Ihr wahrer Name : ein Vic-Warshawski-Roman"
  • "Total Recall : A V.I. Warshawski Novel"
  • "Total recall : A V.I. Warshawski novel"
  • "Total Recall"
  • "Total Recall"@en
  • "Total Recall: a V.I. Warshawski Novel"@en
  • "Total recall : a V. I. Warshawski novel"
  • "Total recall a V.I. Warshawski novel"@en
  • "Total recall a V.I. Warshawski novel"
  • "Total recall : a V.I. Warshawski novel / S"
  • "Sin previo aviso"@es
  • "Sin previo aviso"
  • "Total recall Book 10"@en
  • "Zwendel"
  • "Ihr wahrer Name ein Vic-Warshawski-Roman"
  • "Total recall"@en
  • "Total recall"
  • "Refus de mémoire : roman"
  • "Ihr wahrer Name : ein Vic Warshawski Roman"

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