Fire Sale (V. I. Warshawski Series #12)

When V. I. Warshawski takes on coaching the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces a ragtag group who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes. Young Josie Dorrado's mother is worried about sabotage in the little flag manufacturing plant where she works. The biggest South Side employer, discount-store behemoth By-Smart, doesn't pay enough to support her four children if the plant shuts down. Her fears are realized when the plant explodes; V.I. is injured and the owner is killed. As V.I. begins to investigate she finds herself confronting the Bysen family, owners of the By-Smart company, when the founder's rebellious teenage grandson runs away with Josie Dorrado.