Sara Paretsky

Deadlock is a detective novel by Sara Paretsky told in the first person by private eye V. I. Warshawski.

V I Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V I takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms, who inevitably draw the …