Sara Paretsky takes her legendary hero - Victoria Iphigenia by birth, V.I. by profession, and Vic to her friends - on her first case out of Chicago, when the hunt for a vanished film student and a faded Hollywood star leads her to Kansas. Accompanied by her dog, V.I. tracks the pair through a university town, across fields dotted by Cold War-era missile silos . . . and into a past riven by long-simering racial tensions. She hopes her search will yield the key to the mysteries of the present but every answer V.I. finds unveils another puzzling question - and leads to more dead bodies. (Pub)
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