Dead Land

V.I. Warshawski knows Chicago’s politics: 'Pay to Play'. Money changes hands then buildings and parks are replaced by billion-dollar projects. Private investigator V.I. gets pulled into one of these clandestine deals when her goddaughter Bernie tries to rescue a famed singer-songwriter now living on the streets. V.I. finds herself in the path of some developers whose negotiating strategy is simple: they bulldoze - or kill - any obstacle in their way. Questions pile up almost as fast as the dead bodies. When she tries to answer them the detective finds a terrifying conspiracy stretching from Chicago's parks to a cover-up of the dark chapters in the American government's interference in South American politics.