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Der Sommer geht zur Neige. Im ländlichen Illinois stehen schwere Missernten bevor, in der Großstadt Chicago geht die soziale Schere immer weiter auseinander. Die panische Nachricht einer haltlosen Frau auf Dr. Herschels Anrufbeantworter führt Privatdetektivin Vic Warshawski nach Palfry County. Doch statt der erwarteten Landkommune findet sie dort nur noch eine verlassene Methküche vor und einen toten Hund.Zurück in Chicago ist Warshawski zwar auf vertrautem Terrain, aber ihre Vermisstensuche weitet sich aus zu einer Odyssee durch Zeit und Raum, und die Gegenseite hat fast unbegrenzte Ressourcen.Großmeisterin Sara Paretsky demonstriert die gewaltige Erzählkraft der Kriminalliteratur in diesem elegant geplotteten Hardboiled-Roman mit Privatdetektivin Vic Warshawski, die hier einmal mehr an ihre Grenzen gerät. Die Suche nach einer Vermissten führt die Ermittlerin erst in die Prärie, dann zu einem Chicagoer Hightech-Unternehmen und schließlich in die Geschichte der physikalischen Speichermedien. Denn an der verschollenen Judy Binder und ihrem ebenfalls abgetauchten Sohn hängt ein dunkles Rätsel, das zu knacken Gefahr für Leib und Leben mit sich bringt. Was hat die abgedrehte Junkie-Frau mit einem Nobelpreisträger für Physik aus den 1950ern zu tun? Und inwiefern ist durch Warshawskis Nachforschungen die Familienehre einer IT-Dynastie bedroht?

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Total Recall , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 952min

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. Lotty was a child of nine when she came to England in 1939 as a refugee from Austria. Having lost her entire family to the Nazi terror, she grew up and completed her medical training in London - and there fell in love with a fellow refugee. She ended the affair when she discovered she was pregnant and bore the child in secrecy, giving it up for adoption. Now, that long-held secret may be exposed. At a national conference in Chicago on Jews in Modern America, a man with recovered memories makes a dramatic appearance and claim - and his name brings consternation to Lotty. V.I. is retained to find out whether or not he is a surviving relative of Lotty's. It's a search that meshes stunningly with the pursuit of another case she is on - for what she uncovers, to her great peril, is brutal insurance fraud on an international scale. Total Recall is Paretsky's most spectacular achievement to date, and takes V.I. to new heights of gusto, guts, passion for justice - and risk. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sandra Burr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001290/bk_brll_001290_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Bleeding Kansas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 972min

Set in the Kaw River Valley, where Paretsky grew up, Bleeding Kansas is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the 1850s. Today, the Schapen family, still terrified by the lawlessness of the 1970s - when Lawrence was the most violent college town in the nation - have turned to that old-time religion. They keep a close eye on all their neighbors, most especially the Grelliers, and take careful note of everyone's misdeeds. When Gina Haring, a Wiccan, moves into a nearby farmhouse and starts practicing pagan rites, the Schapens are so outraged that they begin a harassment campaign against the Wiccans.The family members worry, too, about who stands better with the Lord, themselves or the Grelliers. When a Schapen cow gives birth to what may be a "Perfect Red Heifer" - needed if the Temple is ever rebuilt in Jerusalem - the Schapens are convinced that God is indeed smiling on them.The pastor at their church, Salvation Bible, proclaims, "We were given a miracle, a chance to make history, in Kansas. The nation and the world laugh at us. â��What is the matter with Kansas?' liberals ask. We have a chance to say, â��Nothing's the matter with Kansas, generation of vipers. Everything's right with Kansas.' What's the matter is, you have turned your backs on the truth of the risen Lord."Despite parental cautions, the Grelliers' teenage children are enraged by the Schapens. All their short lives, they and the young Schapens have fought, first in their country elementary school and now in high school. One particularly angry confrontation causes Chip Grellier to be expelled from school and consequently to join the Army. Chip's death in Iraq is the catalyzing event for momentous, even monstrous, changes in the lives of not only the Schapens and the Grelliers but all the families in the Valley. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Ericksen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/000166/bk_brll_000166_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Ghost Country , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 774min

Sara Paretsky's genius made Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski a household name. Now the New York Times bestselling author explores an unseen corner of the city she loves. In Ghost Country she has written a parable for the millennium, a powerful, haunting novel of magic and miracles, of four troubled people who meet beneath Chicago's shadowy streets - and of the woman whose mysterious appearance changes all of their lives forever. They come from different worlds and meet at a time of crisis for all of them. Luisa, a drunken diva fallen on hard times, discovers on Chicago's streets a drama greater than any she has experienced onstage. Madeleine, a homeless woman, sees the Virgin Mary's blood seeping through a concrete wall beneath a luxury hotel. Mara, a rebellious adolescent cast out by her wealthy grandfather, becomes the catalyst for a war between the haves and have-nots as she searches among society's castoffs for the mother she never knew. As the three women fight for their right to live and worship beneath the hotel, they find an ally in Hector Tammuz, an idealistic young psychiatrist risking his career to treat the homeless regardless of the cost. Tensions in the city are escalating when a mysterious woman appears during a violent storm. Erotic to some, repellent to others, she never speaks; the street people call her Starr. And as she slowly transforms their lives, miracles begin to happen in a city completely unprepared for the outcome. In this extraordinary novel, Sara Paretsky gives voice to the dispossessed, to men and women struggling to bury the ghosts of the past, fighting for their lives in a world hungry for miracles, terrified of change. A magical, unforgettable story of myth and madness, hope and revelation, Ghost Country is Sara Paretsky's most eloquent and ambitious work yet. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009300/bk_brll_009300_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 384min

Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions. Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity. But few people understand just how or why they happen and, more important, the immeasurable consequences that often haunt the lucky few who are acquitted years after they are proven innocent. Now, in this groundbreaking anthology, 14 exonerated inmates narrate their stories to a roster of high-profile mystery and thriller writers - including Lee Child, Sara Paretsky, Laurie R. King, Jan Burke, and SJ Rozan - while another exoneree's case is explored in a previously unpublished essay by legendary playwright Arthur Miller. An astonishing and unique collaboration, these testimonies bear witness to the incredible stories of innocent men and women who were convicted of serious crimes and cast into the maw of a vast and deeply flawed American criminal justice system before eventually, and miraculously, being exonerated. Introduced by best-selling authors Scott Turow and Barry Scheck, these master storytellers capture the tragedy of wrongful convictions as never before and challenge listeners to confront the limitations and harsh realities of the American criminal justice system. Lee Child tells of Kirk Bloodsworth, who obsessively read about the burgeoning field of DNA testing, cautiously hoping that it held the key to his acquittal - until he eventually became the first person to be exonerated from death row based on DNA evidence. Judge John Sheldon and author Gayle Lynds team up to share Audrey Edmunds' experience raising her children long distance from her prison cell. And exoneree Gloria Killian recounts to SJ Rozan her journey from that fateful "knock on the door" and the initial shock of accusation to the scars she carries today. Together, the pow ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Berkrot, Scott Aiello, Sarah Naughton, Karen White, Jonathan Davis, full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/030278/bk_adbl_030278_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Gift or Theft

Seema is a gardener and a dreamer. She is almost content with her safe life, sharing a flat with her best friend. Until, on a girls' night out, a beguiling older man approaches her. He leads her into a world of wealth and sophistication she's completely unused to. Through him she arrives at a place where both dreams and nightmares come true. Has seduction crossed the line into manipulation or coercion? Worse, is the relationship sliding into a supernatural realm - where a man's obsession with blood will lead to Seema's death? About Crocodiles and Good Intentions "It's an amazing achievement. Lady Bag excels herself. I was shocked, appalled, mystified, uplifted, tickled pink and hugely entertained. There's no person in all of literature anything like her... Above all, the human spirit (and some doggy spirit...) rises above all the privations and triumphs. Thanks for a terrific read." Peter Lovesey, MWA Grand Master, CWA Diamond Dagger winner Mat Coward (reviewing in The Morning Star): "One of current fiction's most striking and exhilarating characters returns for a second outing... Amid the horrors of Lady Bag's new adventures, and inextricable from them, is some gaspingly funny comedy. Cody has command not only of comic dialogue but, which is much harder to pull off, a kind of verbal rendering of visual humour, as she choreographs her characters across the pages with perfect timing. About Lady Bag "...made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up for a whole novel... Lady Bag is ... perfectly realized..." Sara Paretsky, MWA Grand Master, CWA Diamond Dagger winner

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V.I. Warshawski

Kathleen Turner plays sexy, streetwise Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski, in this comedic crime tale, based on the book "Deadlock" from the series of detective novels by Sara Paretsky. When her would-be boyfriend is murdered, Warshawski puts her life and career on the line to help his young daughter (Angela Goethals) catch the killer. The trail to find the culprit is filled with dangerous chases and encounters with some of the Windy City's seediest characters. With Jay O. Sanders, Charles Durning.

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