01196cam a2200265 4500 363643358 TxAuBib 20101206120000.0 050811s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005047601 9780399152795 hc : acid-free paper 0399152792 hc : acid-free paper (OCoLC)58470926 DLC DLC AOP OCL MNXPV TxAuBib Paretsky, Sara. Fire sale / Sara Paretsky. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005. 402 p. ; 24 cm. V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes. 20050811. Warshawski, V. I. (Fictitious character) Fiction. Women private investigators Illinois Chicago Fiction. Mystery fiction. Chicago (Ill) Fiction.