Sara Paretsky and V.I. Warshawski have been together for a very long time. "In sickness and in health," laughed Paretsky, who has just completed her 14th mystery featuring V.I. Warshawski, the Chicago ...

She has, though, pretty much fit in everything else: V.I. has tangled with corrupt Chicago politics, the Vatican Bank, Great Lakes shipping and malpractice, and more.Despite literary success - her ...

Already having established herself as an inventor of the female private eye and a master of the mystery format, Paretsky skillfully expands the form to tackle several convergent themes in a moving ...

In MWA Grand Master Paretsky’s solid 21st V.I. Warshawski novel (after 2018’s Shell Game), Warshawski’s goddaughter, Bernadine “Bernie” Fouchard, persuades her to attend a meeting of the South ...

It hardly seems possible that 30 years have passed since Sara Paretsky introduced Chicago private detective V.I. Warshawski in "Indemnity Only," and helped change the mystery/thriller genre forever.

How is the murder of a meth dealer in an Illinois cornfield tied to the disappearance of a brilliant software designer in Chicago and the race to develop an atomic bomb in Germany during WWII? If ...

Sara Paretsky created her female detective V.I. ("Vic") Warshawski some 20 years ago and started a deluge in doing it. Since then, there have been dozens of best-selling books featuring tough yet ...

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