Sara Paretsky at Book Passage

V.I. Warshawski’s closest friend in Chicago is
the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel, who lost most of her family in the
Holocaust.  Lotty escaped to London in 1939 on the Kindertransport with a
childhood playmate, Kitty Saginor Binder.  When Kitty’s daughter finds her
life is in danger, she calls Lotty, who, in turn, summons V.I. to help. 
The daughter’s troubles turn out to be just the tip of an iceberg of lies,
secrets, and silence, whose origins go back to the mad competition among
America, Germany, Japan and England to develop the first atomic bomb.  The
secrets are old, but the people who continue to guard them today will not let
go of them without a fight in Critical Mass
($26.95). Sara Paretsky is the
author of nineteen books, including her renowned V. I. Warshawski novels.