Last updated: 24 february, 2010 - 11:49 GMT
Sara Paretsky
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Writer Sara Paretsky is back for the thirteenth time.
This time her private eye protaganist, VI Warshawski, treads the hardboiled streets of Chicago in a thriller that incorporates the failed idealism of the race riots of the 1960s and the street gangs who protected Martin Luther King from the city's own police force.
These themes are traced right up to a dark and corrupt present day.
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