Deadlock By Sara Paretsky

1986 paperback

Ballantine Books

Very Good

Novel

Deadlock is a 1984 mystery novel by Sara Paretsky, featuring her famous private investigator V.I.Warshawski, and is the second book in the series. The plot follows V.I. as she investigates the suspicious death of her cousin, former hockey star "Boom Boom" Warshawski, whose accidental drowning leads her into the dangerous and corrupt world of Chicago's shipping industry, uncovering a web of violence, extortion, and murder.