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V.I. Warshawski takes on a routine stakeout for her most important client, Darraugh Graham. His ninety-one-year-old mother sold the family estate when she could no longer manage it, and now that it's standing empty, Geraldine Graham keeps a fretful eye on it from a retirement apartment across the road. When the woman sees lights on in the middle of the night, V.I. checks it out--and finds a dead man in the ornamental pond. A reporter, it turns out, for an African-American publication, and as far as the suburban cops seem to feel, a black criminal who stumbled to a drunken death. Furious, the man's family hires V.I. to investigate--and that's when things begin to get complicated.
V.I. Warshawski takes on a routine stakeout for her most important client, Darraugh Graham. His ninety-one-year-old mother sold the family estate when she could no longer manage it, and now that it's standing empty, Geraldine Graham keeps a fretful eye on it from a retirement apartment across the road. When the woman sees lights on in the middle of the night, V.I. checks it out--and finds a dead man in the ornamental pond. A reporter, it turns out, for an African-American publication, and as far as the suburban cops seem to feel, a black criminal who stumbled to a drunken death. Furious, the man's family hires V.I. to investigate--and that's when things begin to get complicated.