Deadlock

When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski slips off a wharf and drowns in Lake Michigan, cousin V.I. questions the report of accidental death and rumors of suicide.

V.I. searches for leads and finds a trail of violence and corruption. It takes her to the center of Chicago''s powerful shipping industry. There she ferrets out her cousin''s killer -- but nearly gets painted out of the picture -- permanently!