Pay Dirt

Sometimes, time doesn't heal all wounds...

When a young woman named Sabrina disappears without a trace in Kansas, private investigator V.I. Warshawski knows she must act fast. But when she discovers Sabrina close to death in a drug house, the locals don't take kindly to her—and Sabrina's mother becomes suspicious.

V.I. finds herself under the sharp gaze of the FBI—and the men running the county's opioid distribution. And when a dead body surfaces a few days later, V.I. is pitched headlong into a battle between the locals—with roots that date all the way back to the American Civil War.

The war might be over, but its legacy remains—and V.I.'s survival depends on keeping one step ahead in a game she doesn't even know she's playing...