Part of V.I. Warshawski, book 22
First published 2024
V.I. Warshawski arrives in Kansas shaken by her latest case, where a father killed the missing child she had tracked down. Her friends hope college basketball will restore her spirits, but when Angela's roommate Sabrina vanishes, V.I. stays behind to search. She locates Sabrina near death in a drug house, but the rescue brings unwanted attention from the FBI and local dealers. Days later, V.I. finds a dead body in the same house and realizes she has stumbled into something much larger. The murder connects to a land dispute that reaches back to the Civil War era. Modern combatants prove as deadly as their 1860s predecessors, and V.I. must navigate a dangerous game where the rules remain hidden. Her survival requires staying ahead of players who view her as both threat and target in their ongoing battle over territory and power.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, survival
Setting: Kansas
Period: Civil War
400 pages · Hardcover · William Morrow
Content warnings: drug-use