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  • Pay Dirt

  • A V.I. Warshawski Novel
  • By: Sara Paretsky
  • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
  • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (76 ratings)

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Pay Dirt

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
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Publisher's summary

Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a mystery with roots dating back to the Civil War in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky.

V .I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her intelligence, her humor, her unflinching courage, and her love of good coffee. But even the strongest people sometimes need a break to recharge, so her friends send her to Kansas for a weekend of college basketball where Angela, one of her protégées, is playing. And that’s where trouble finds V.I.

Sabrina, one of Angela’s roommates, disappears and V.I. agrees to try to find her. Finding a missing person in a city where she knows few people and doesn’t have her trusted contacts is hard, but not as hard as the brutally negative reaction to the detective from some of the locals. When V.I. finds Sabrina close to death in a remote house, she lands herself in the FBI’s crosshairs and faces a violent online backlash. The men running the county’s opioid distribution are also not happy.

Discovering a dead body in the same house a few days later, V.I. is pitched headlong into a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War. She finds that today’s combatants are just as willing as opponents in the 1860s to kill to settle their differences.

V.I.’s survival depends on keeping one step ahead of players in a game she never intended to play, before the clock runs down.

©2024 Sara Paretsky (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers
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Great book

Wonderful- I love V I! It was so good to be back with the best private investigator

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love this series

character VI is real and the plot is very well developed so a very enjoyable listen

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yelling, whiney angry narrater

I had to reduce the speed to lower the narrator into a regester I could listed to.

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Strong women story

Awesome
Really enjoyed the story and I love love love the reader. She’s the best never change.


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Vic never gives up

No matter what VI never gives up. She reminds me of the energizer bunny. I’m glad the story has closure on Peter and where he has been since he left.

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Another winner!

This may be my favorite V.I. adventure. This story starts with a startling beginning despite V.I.’s struggles with a recent traumatic episode. Her fearlessness is unrelenting and she turns sadness into a mission of incredible depth and satisfaction. Susan Erickson does a fabulous job representing all our favorite’s in Vic’s world. V.I.’s adventures won’t be put down and neither will Paretsky!

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Convoluted Story

Have listened to all the V.I. stories. This one was good but different. The storyline in Kansas about all the "owners" etc. of the property was very convoluted and difficult to follow the characters. As always though, it is worth the credit.

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Great story

I liked all of it particularly the extras at the end. They told a lot about the author

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Another VI Warshafsky story.

Like an old friend from my hometown and neighborhood. Read them all. Will be on the lookout for the next one.

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Good story but Too Loud

The reader’s voice was loud and shrill. I have read all the V.I. Warshawski books, many on audible, never experiencing the reader to be problematic. It really distracted from the story.



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