Body work
(Playaway/Launchpad)

Title from Playaway label.

"HDAUDIO."

Release date supplied by publisher.

Previously released by Brilliance Audio, p2010.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for playback.

"A V.I. Warshawski novel"--Container.

Performed by Susan Ericksen.

V.I. has been visiting Club Gouge, Chicago's edgiest nightspot, 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 vets, 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 vets into a violent rage. When the painter is shot, the cops figure it's an easy collar -- PTSD vet goes off the rails, stalks then kills young woman. But the vet'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.