Breakdown is a somewhat recent (2012) addition to Sara Paretsky’s Chicago-based V.I. Warshawski detective series (started in 1982, Breakdown is the 15th out of 20 V.I. novels).  This outing kicks off with V.I. leaving a fancy awards gala to help her cousin track down a group of missing teenage girls who  have snuck out to re-enact scenes from the latest teen novel sensation, a vampire thriller.  V.I. finds the girls in a rainy graveyard, right next to the still-warm corpse of a small-time Chicago private […]