Hard Time

What secrets hide behind the razzle-dazzle of the entertainment industry? V. I. Warshawski is about to find out. Her friend, reporter Murray Ryerson, has just landed a plum job as host of a Global Entertainment network television show. On her way home from the party celebrating the event, V. I. stops to help a woman lying in the street. Her Good Samaritan act exposes dark truths, and suddenly V. I. finds herself playing a game she can only win by staying alive. This is the ninth novel in Paretsky's V. I. Warshawski series.