I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.

x 3 (2011) includes both stories from V. eBooks
Photo Finish (2000) ISBN 978-1-101-53751-0
V. The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is V.

Sara Paretsky (born June 8 1947) is a modern American author of detective fiction.