Breakdown

Plot

"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 investigaiton. 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."--Page 4 of cover.