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Blacklist by Sara Paretsky6/3/2023 might even be one of them.Ī novel as passionate, complex, and powerfully entertaining as its acclaimed heroine, Blacklist is a stunning achievement. Before everything is over, at least two more people will lie dead. As the two cases drive her forward-and then shockingly tumble together-she finds that wealth and privilege, too, bear a terrible price and the past has no monopoly on patriotic scoundrels. At the same time, she inadvertently becomes involved in the story of a missing Egyptian boy whose possible terrorist connections make him very much sought after by the government. It is the body of a reporter who had been investigating events of forty-five years earlier, during the McCarthy era, 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. Grasping for something to hold on to, her fingers close around a lifeless human hand. accepts a request from an old client to check up on an empty family mansion sub-sequently surprises an intruder in the dark and, giving chase, topples into a pond. Eager for something physical to do in the spirit-exhausting wake of 9/11, V.I. This is a story of secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations-secrets political, social, sexual, financial: all of them with the power to kill. From one of the most distinguished writers in American crime fiction - her most brilliant and daring novel yet.
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