Breakdown

Completely compelling and absorbing suspense from the queen of the female PI crime novel. When some teenagers hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on a man stabbed through the heart. The girls include daughters of Chicago's most powerful families: the grandfather of one, Chaim Salanter, is one of the world's wealthiest men, the mother of another, Sophy Durango, is the Illinois Democratic candidate for Senate. For V. I. Warshawski, the questions multiply faster than the answers. Is the killing linked to a hostile media campaign against Sophy Durango? Or to Chaim Salanter's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania?