| Blood Shot | |
| Author: | Sara Paretsky |
| Title Orig: | Toxic Shock |
| Series: | V.I. Warshawski series |
| Genre: | Mystery |
| Publisher: | Delacorte Press |
| Pub Date: | 1988 |
| Isbn: | 0440204208 |
| Oclc: | 476821113 |
| Preceded By: | Bitter Medicine (1987) |
| Followed By: | Burn Marks (1990) |
Blood Shot (marketed under the title Toxic Shock in the United Kingdom), published in New York in 1988, is the fifth in a series of novels by Sara Paretsky featuring her character V. I. Warshawski, a hard-boiled female private investigator.[1] The novel was nominated for the 1989 Anthony Award in the "Best Novel" category.[2]
V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she's never been a woman who breaks a promise. Returning to her old neighborhood for a school reunion, she finds herself agreeing to search for a childhood friend's missing father, a man her friend never knew and about whom her friend's dying mother will not speak. What ought to have been a routine missing-persons case rapidly turns up a homicide; and Warshawski must battle corrupt local politicians and businessmen, who do all they can to derail her investigation.