Love & Other Crimes

The book features a blend of espionage and detective work through interconnected stories. A young girl befriends a mouse in a lab embroiled in sinister experiments. V.I. Warshawski, a ten-year-old, takes on her first investigation to save her father. A hardboiled detective collaborates with an elderly aristocrat to solve a murder during the Chicago World's Fair. In "Love & Other Crimes," V.I. grapples with themes of justice and vengeance as she navigates the fallout from a wrongful dismissal that leads to a murder accusation against a family friend.