When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski slips off a wharf and drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye cousin questions the accidental death report and rumors of suicide and follows a trail of violence and corruption to the center of the Windy City's powerful shipping industry. The one-of-a-kind detective wends her way through a maze of grain elevators and thousand-ton freighters, ruthless businessmen, and gorgeous ballerinas to ferret out Boom Boom's killers before they phase her out of the picture -- ...
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When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski slips off a wharf and drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye cousin questions the accidental death report and rumors of suicide and follows a trail of violence and corruption to the center of the Windy City's powerful shipping industry. The one-of-a-kind detective wends her way through a maze of grain elevators and thousand-ton freighters, ruthless businessmen, and gorgeous ballerinas to ferret out Boom Boom's killers before they phase her out of the picture -- permanently.
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Rythm, action, spunk, brains, social conciousness, social issues, humour, courage. Plus a real woman, with real problems, like you and me. Plus the city throbing and the lake. Highly pleasurable reading.