# Body Work

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- Book: [Body Work](https://www.bookquiver.com/sara-paretsky/body-work) ([Body Work.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sara-paretsky/body-work.md))
- Authors: [Sara Paretsky](https://www.bookquiver.com/sara-paretsky)
- Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-03-4099-412-2
- Published: 2012-01-19
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Club Gouge: Chicago's edgiest night spot, where a woman calling herself the Body Artist invites the audience to use her naked body as a canvas. The show attracts all kinds of people, from a menacing cop to Ukrainian mobsters and Iraq war veterans. A tormented young painter comes too, and the designs she creates on the Body Artist drive one of the soldiers into a violent rage. When the painter is shot, the police assume the shell-shocked veteran went off the rails. But his family hires V. I. to clear his name - and the detective discovers a chain of ugly truths stretching from Iraq to Chicago's South Side.