Breakdown

Breakdown by Sara Paretsky Carmilla Queen of the Night is
a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill
girls all over the world. When tweens in Chicagos Carmilla
Club hold and initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery
they stumble on an actual corpse a man stabbed through the
heart in a vampire-style slaying. The girls include
daughters of some of Chicagos most powerful families: the
grandfather of one Chaim Salanter is among the worlds
weathiest men; the mother of another Sophy Durango is
running for the United States Senate. For V.I. Warshawski
the questions multiply faster than the answers. Is the
killing linked to a hostile media campaign against Sophy
Durango? Or to Chaim Salanters childhood in Nazi-occupied
Lithuania? As V.I. struggles to answer these questions she
finds herself fighting enemies who are no less terrifying
for being all too human.