Sara Paretsky

Sara Paretsky was brought up in rural Kansas. After a variety of jobs ranging from dishwashing to marketing she now writes full time. She is a founder and past President of Sisters in Crime, an advocacy group for women in the thriller field. She lives in Chicago with a University of Chicago physicist and their golden retriever.

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Maxim Jakubowski's view on V.I. WARSHAWSKI...

Launched in 1982 by Sara Paretsky in INDEMNITY ONLY, Vic Warshawski is the toughest gal on the Chicago block, a female private eye who could outfight Philip Marlowe and his kind, as well as outsmart them. Pigheaded and socially conscious, she is the queen of hard-boiled.

V.I. Warshawski series:
1. Indemnity Only
2. Deadlock
3. Killing Orders
4. Bitter Medicine
5. Blood Shot
6. Burn Marks
7. Guardian Angel
8. Tunnel Vision
9. Hard Time
10. Total Recall
11. Blacklist
12. Fire Sale
13. Hardball

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Body Work Sara Paretsky Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 21 April 2011. The brilliant new V.I. Warshawski novel from a crime author who writes with unbeatable pace and a passion for justice. Format: Hardback - Released: 17/03/2011 Lovereading Price: £12.74 - Saving £4.25 (25%)

Hardball Sara Paretsky Like Sara Paretsky; read Tara Moss. Alongside Sue Grafton and Marcia Muller, Paretsky created the modern archetype of the modern female detective: V.I. Warshawski roams the mean Chicago streets with a feminist sense of righteousness, anger... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/02/2010 Lovereading Price: £9.74 - Saving £3.25 (25%)

Fire Sale Sara Paretsky V.I. WARSHAWSKI - Launched in 1982 by Sara Paretsky in INDEMNITY ONLY, Vic Warshawski is the toughest gal on the Chicago block, a female private eye who could outfight Philip Marlowe and his kind, as well as outsmart them.... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2006 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Fire Sale Sara Paretsky Sara Paretsky has created one of the most compelling yet complex characters in detective fiction. Private Investigator V. I. Warshawski is beginning to wonder whether a trip down memory lane – Chicago - was such a good idea after all,... Format: Hardback - Released: 13/03/2006 Lovereading Price: £9.74 - Saving £3.25 (25%)