num_pages: 320
description: V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to  her old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promise  is something she always keeps. Caroline, a  childhood friend, has a dying mother and a problem --  after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the  father she never knew. But when V.I. starts  probing into the past, she not only finds out where all  the bodies are buried -- she stumbles onto a very  new corpse. Now she's stirring up a deadly mix of  big business and chemical corruption that may  become a toxic shock to a snooper who knows too  much.Published in the UK as Toxic Shock and in America as Blood Shot.
language: English
title: Toxic Shock
titlecomplete: Toxic Shock (V.I. Warshawski, #5)
genres: Crime, Novels, Thriller, Noir, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Fiction, The United States Of America, Mystery
ratings_count: 9829
series: V.I. Warshawski
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: CWA Silver Dagger, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best PI Hardcover
publisher: Penguin Books