Read by Karen Peakes.

No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few shed be happy to avoid. High on that list is tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet thats precisely what she ends up doing when she responds to Frank Guzzos plea for help.,She forgot about him until the day his mother was convicted of bludgeoning his kid sister, Annie, to death. Stella Guzzo was an angry, uncooperative prisoner and did a full twenty-five years for her daughters murder. Newly released from prison, Stella is looking for exoneration, so Frank asks V.I. for help.