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Sara Paretsky

    June 8, 1947

    Sara Paretsky is a modern American author of detective fiction, credited with transforming the role and image of women in the crime novel. Her work predominantly features V.I. Warshawski, a private investigator whose eclectic personality defies easy categorization. Warshawski embodies a compelling blend of toughness and complexity, navigating the gritty world of crime while maintaining her individuality. Paretsky's writing delves into societal issues and moral quandaries through intricate plots that draw readers into a world of intrigue and suspense.

    Sara Paretsky
    Fire Sale
    Hard Time
    Dead Land
    Toxic Shock
    Critical Mass
    Entertainment to Die For
    • Entertainment to Die For

      • 346 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      An anthology of crime stories authored by members of the Sisters in Crime Los Angeles chapter. Introduction by Sara Paretsky.

      Entertainment to Die For
    • Private Eye V.I. Warshawski is roused one morning by an SOS from a woman on a farm south of Chicago. When V.I. gets there, she finds no woman - but a dead man in a cornfield, his body savagely mutilated. V.I. is happy to leave the case to the local sheriff: it looks like a falling out among meth dealers. But back in Chicago, she learns that the missing woman is a protegee of her oldest friend and confidante, Dr Lotty Herschel, and is compelled to investigate. What V.I. uncovers pulls her into a world of nuclear secrets and high-stakes computing, with roots reaching back to the Second World War. The detective soon finds herself in a hall of mirrors where she can't tell reality from video games, and her life is on the line. For V.I., this is her most profound, and terrifying, adventure yet ...

      Critical Mass
    • Toxic Shock

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
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      Vic Warshawski agrees to investigate the paternity of Caroline Djiak, whose mother, Louisa, is dying. Following some leads, Vic visits Louisa's old workplace, the Xerxes Chemical Plant. What she finds is corruption and cruelty on a horrifying scale, where profit has more value than human life.

      Toxic Shock
    • The edge-of-seat new crime novel featuring America's toughest and most caring private eye, V.I. Warshawski.

      Dead Land
    • Hard Time

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
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      This work once again features the determined and passionate sleuth V.I. Warshawski. Here prison life and the entertainment industry merge when Murray Ryerson - a fellow investigator and friend of Warshawski, is assaulted and left for dead.

      Hard Time
    • Fire Sale

      • 528 pages
      • 19 hours of reading
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      Coaching the basketball team at her former South Chicago high school, V.I. Warshawski investigates sabotage at the site of the area's largest employer, where an explosion has killed the facility's owner and launched a dangerous family rivalry.

      Fire Sale
    • In Writing in an Age of Silence , Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work, against the unparalleled repression of free speech and thought in the USA today.In tracing the writer’s difficult journey from silence to speech, Paretsky turns to her childhood youth in rural Kansas, and brilliantly evokes Chicago—the city with which she has become indelibly associated—from her arrival during the civil-rights struggle in the mid-1960s to her most extraordinary literary creation, the south-side detective V I Warshawski. Paretsky traces the emergence of V I Warshawski from the shadows of the loner detectives that stalk the mean streets of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler’s novels, and in the process explores American individualism, the failure of the American dream and the resulting dystopia.Both memoir and meditation, Writing in an Age of Silence is a beautiful, compelling exploration of the writer’s art and daunting responsibility in the face of the assault on US civil liberties post-9/11.

      Writing in an Age of Silence
    • While driving home after celebrating friend Murray Ryerson's big break into TV hosting, V.I. almost collides with a fatally wounded woman lying in the street. The deceased is Nicola Aguinaldo, former employee of security giant B.B. Baladine and recent prison runaway. Taking on the case, V.I. finds herself plunged into a sinister network of corruption that pits her against the police, the prison and the entertainment industry - with potentially lethal results.

      Hard Time. Die verschwundene Frau, englische Ausgabe
    • When the teenage daughters of some of Chicago's most influential families discover the body of a ritually murdered victim, investigator Warshawski explores theories that the killing is linked to a hostile media campaign against a senatorial candidate or a wealthy patriarch's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania

      Breakdown
    • V.I. Warshawski is the perfect heroine . . . What [Paretsky] brings to the classic private-eye novel is something entirely original; a dry crackle of wit and a deep emotional sympathy with her characters The Sunday Times

      Fallout