author results for "Paretsky, Sara"

Windy City Blues

Paretsky, Sara — Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT

Blacklist

Paretsky, Sara — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT

Windy City Blues

Paretsky, Sara — Wed, 31 Jan 1996 00:00:00 GMT

Tunnel Vision

Paretsky, Sara — Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT

Blacklist

Paretsky, Sara — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT

Chicago detective V.I. Warshawski investigates the murder of an African-American reporter and walks into a web of sex, politics, corruption, and secrecy spanning fifty years--from the McCarthy era to the Patriot Act--that could ultimately kill her.

Hard Time

Paretsky, Sara — Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT

Windy City Blues

Paretsky, Sara — Wed, 31 Jan 1996 00:00:00 GMT

Windy City Blues

Paretsky, Sara — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

V.I. Warshawski, “undoubtedly one of the best-written characters in mystery fiction” (The Baltimore Sun), returns in a collection of stories that bring new meaning to “ties that bind.” Decked out in her silk shirts and no-nonsense Attitude, V.I. is out to make a living—by the skin of her teeth.
In “Grace Notes,” V.I. has barely finished her morning coffee when she sees an ad in the paper asking for information about her own mother, long dead.  The paper leads V.I. to her newfound Italian cousin Vico, who’s looking for music composed by their great-grandmother.  What’s the score?  Clearly it’s something to kill for. . . .
“The Pietro Andromache” finds V.I.’s friend Dr. Lotty Herschel with motive and means to dispatch her professional rival and steal his priceless statue.  Lotty didn’t do it—but does she know who did?  V.I. soon cuts to the art of the case—and it’s not a pretty picture at all!
Summoned by an old high school friend to a race “At the Old Swimming Hole,” V.I. ends up swimming with the sharks—the FBI and a ruthless gambling kingpin—in a pool of blood. . . . And it’s only “Skin Deep” when a relaxing facial transformation transforms a client into a stiff.  V.I.’s pal Sal needs help.  Her beautician sister Evangeline is prime suspect—and V.I. has only eighteen hours to crack the case before it’s headline news. . . .
“Three-Dot Po” proves there’s nothing like a dog.  Especially a dog on the trail of her mistress’s killer, with V.I. in tow. . . .
In “Strung Out,” love means nothing and V.I.’s quick to learn the score as her old friend’s tennis-champion daughter is under suspicion for strangling her father with a racket string.  And there’s more, nine stories in all, in this masterful collection of short fiction starring V.I. Warshawski, “the most engaging woman in detective fiction since Dorothy Sayers’s Harriet Vane” (Newsweek).

Hard Time

Paretsky, Sara — Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “When it comes to creating character, evoking place, and writing crackling and convincing dialogue, Sara Paretsky has no peer—and Hard Time proves it once again.”—Chicago Tribune

“Terrific . . . expertly plotted . . . This book [is] her best.”—The New York Times Book Review

In an instant, the lives of two women collided. One was behind the wheel of a Trans Am she liked to drive too fast. The other was lying in the road, dying an agonizing death. When Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski got out of her car to look at the woman she almost hit, she began a long, harrowing descent into a world of shadowy secrets and tangled lives—and into the darkest heart of her city.
In Hard Time, which heralds the triumphant return of the much-loved heroine V.I. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky revisits the gritty urban landscape she illuminates with brilliant compassion and vivid color. For as V.I. unravels the mystery of a battered and discarded woman, she moves through circles of the rich and the troubled, into the bitter home of a powerful Chicago family, into the pampered world of a TV star, and behind the razor wire of a women’s prison. What V.I. finds is a web of conspiracy—and explosive secrets hidden in the darkest places of all. . . .
”You’ll feel handcuffed to this book until you’ve finished—probably at 3 a.m.”—The Denver Post

Breakdown

Paretsky, Sara — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Bleeding Kansas

Paretsky, Sara — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Deadlock

Paretsky, Sara — Fri, 31 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT

Dead Land

Paretsky, Sara — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT

"Chicago's legendary detective, V.I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use"-- Provided by publisher.

Tunnel Vision

Paretsky, Sara — Mon, 31 Jan 1994 00:00:00 GMT

Private investigator V.I. Warshawski probes the world of abused women, runaway children and the homeless to find a killer. In the process she uncovers a financial fraud with links to Chicago banks and the university, forcing her to take on the city's establishment. By the author of Guardian Angel.

Tunnel Vision

Paretsky, Sara — Mon, 31 Jan 1994 00:00:00 GMT

Breakdown

Paretsky, Sara — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill tween girls all over the world. When Chicago's Carmilla Club holds an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, murdered vampire-style. The girls include daughters of some of Chicago's most powerful families. And for V.I. Warshawski, the questions multiply faster than the answers.

Deadlock

Paretsky, Sara — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Bleeding Kansas

Paretsky, Sara — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Dead Land

Paretsky, Sara — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

"A proper
hero for these times . . . To us, V.I. is perfect." — THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"Sara Paretsky's gloriously kick-ass private eye, V.I.
"Vic" Warshawski, is back . . . in a political-rot thriller that's the
definition of perfection in the genre." — THE WASHINGTON POST

Chicago's legendary detective, V.I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use, in this propulsive novel from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky.

Chicago may be the city of broad shoulders, but its political law is "Pay to Play." Money changes hands in the middle of the night, and by morning, buildings and parks are replaced by billion-dollar projects.

Chicago PI V.I. Warshawski gets pulled into one of these clandestine deals through her impetuous goddaughter, Bernie Fouchard. Bernie tries to rescue Lydia Zamir, a famed singer-songwriter now living on the streets; Zamir's life fell apart when her lover was murdered next to her in a mass shooting at an outdoor concert. Not only does Bernie plunge her and V.I. headlong into the path of some ruthless developers, they lead to the murder of the young man Bernie is dating. He's a computer geek working for a community group called SLICK.

V.I. is desperate to find a mysterious man named Coop, who roams the lakefront in the middle of the night with his dog. She's sure he holds the key to the mounting body count within SLICK. Coop may even know why an international law firm is representing the mass murderer responsible for Lydia's lover's death. Instead, the detective finds a terrifying conspiracy stretching from Chicago's parks to a cover-up of the dark chapters in America's meddling in South American politics. Before she finds answers, this electrifying novel pushes V.I. close to the breaking point: People who pay to play take no prisoners.

Tunnel Vision

Paretsky, Sara — Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT

Stubbornness has landed private eye V.I. Warshawski in big trouble at her Chicago office. With her grand old Loop building set to be razed, she's become a hold-out tenant amid frayed wiring and scary, empty corridors. Then she finds a homeless woman with three kids in the basement, and before she can rescue them, they disappear. Worst of all, she's been implicated in a murder—after the body of Deirdre Messenger, a prominent lawyer's wife, turns up sprawled across her desk.
V.I., who had volunteered with Deirdre at a women's shelter, suspects her death is linked to a case of upper-class domestic abuse so slickly concealed that the police refuse to believe it. Increasingly at odds with the cops, V.I. is blindly plunging ahead after the truth. And her path may lead to corruption at the highest levels.or deep into the abandoned tunnels beneath Chicago's streets, where secrets are hiding in the dark like a child's—or V.I.'s—worst nightmare.

Writing in An Age of Silence

Paretsky, Sara — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Total Recall

Paretsky, Sara — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT

Burn Marks

Paretsky, Sara — Wed, 31 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT

When her seedy and importunate Aunt Elena turns up on her doorstep at midnight having been burned out of her old people's home, V.I. Warshawski is exasperated rather than curious. Her interest is aroused however, when an old friend, now a politician, puts pressure on her to investigate.

Total Recall

Paretsky, Sara — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Writing in An Age of Silence

Paretsky, Sara — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT