Body Work by Sara Paretsky

Body Work (V.I. Warshawski Novel) - V.I. Warshawski’s cousin is working at Club Gouge, where the Body Artist appears on stage naked and lets the audience paint on her body.  After one of these performances, a young lady is shot in the parking lot and dies in V.I.’s arms.   A local vet is suspected of the murder, but when V.I. is hired by his parents to clear his name, V.I. begins to believe that he was framed.