“Burns” is a novel about the behind-the-scenes scams of Chicago businessmen, whose crimes involve the small people of the big city in a bloody whirlpool.

Victoria was awakened by a night knock on the door. For a private detective, such visits mean a new job. In and. Ay. Warshawski, the heroine of the novel “Burns,” was entrusted with a simple “case”: to find the culprit of the fire of an old, dilapidated hotel, but it turned out that in the flames of the fire, unscrupulous politicians were trying to destroy the ends of the behind-the-scenes scams. The thread of the investigation leads Victoria to Chicago homeless shelters and to the glittering offices of powerful corporations, and when, in the course of a dizzying intrigue, she is on the verge of revealing the secrets of criminal gangs and corrupt police and the secrets of the origin of the colossal profits of construction magnates, the opponents of the private detective have only one thing left - get Victoria out of the investigation by any means...