# 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 Stoughton
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-4894-218-9
- Published: 2011-03-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'Doctors take days off - why not PIs?' V. I. Warshawski demands. But when the hardest-working of private eyes goes out one night, a stranger is shot and dies in her arms. V. I. has been visiting Club Gouge, Chicago's edgiest night spot, where a woman known as the Body Artist turns her naked body into a canvas for the audience to paint on. The show attracts all kinds of people, from a menacing off-duty cop to Ukrainian mobsters and Iraq war veterans - and V. I.'s impetuous cousin, Petra. A tormented young painter shows up too, and the intricate designs she creates on the Body Artist drive one of the soldiers into a violent rage. When the painter is shot, the police think it's a clear-cut case: a shell-shocked war veteran goes off the rails. But the soldier's family hires V. I. to clear his name, and the detective uncovers a chain of ugly truths that stretches all the way from Iraq to Chicago's South Side. THE 14TH BOOK IN THE THRILLING V. I. WARSHAWSKI SERIES.