Welcome to Litsy!

When a group of Chicago tweens holds a ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse�stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. V.I. Warshawski arrives on the scene to escort the girls home�but protecting them places her at the tangled center of the investigation. And the girls include daughters of some of Chicago�s most powerful families: the grandfather of one, Chaim Salanter, is among the world�s wealthiest men; the mother of another, Sophy Durango, is running for the United States Senate. For V.I., the questions multiply faster than the answers. Is the killing linked to a hostile media campaign against Durango�or to Salanter�s childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania? As V.I. struggles to find an answer, she finds herself fighting enemies who are no less terrifying for being all too human.