Sara Paretsky will be the guest of honor at a Lawrence Public Library Foundation event on Friday. Sara Paretsky has a problem. And it’s becoming V.I. Warshawski’s problem, too. Paretsky says as the ...

V.I. Warshawski, the private investigator who lives near Wrigley Field in Sara Paretsky’s beloved mystery novels, is a more devoted Cubs fan than the writer who created her. But not by much. Paretsky, ...

The bestselling crime writer on hating femmes fatales, self doubt and creating a female character who refused to be silenced In 2007, Sara Paretsky took time out from her day job as a crime writer to ...

Books have shaped my life in more ways than I can explain. There are some key milestones that will always stand proud of the rest: the moment, reading a Chalet School book, when I understood that ...

Chicago private eye V.I. ("Vic") Warshawski needs all her strength and ingenuity to deal with the tragic effects of discrimination past and present in this riveting exploration of guilt and fear, the ...

Verso, 158 pages, $22.95. Decades before she developed the literary alter ego for which she is best known — the female private investigator V.I. Warshawski — mystery writer Sara Paretsky was already ...

Lotty Herschel, V.I. Warshawski’s stand-in maternal figure, needs her friend’s help in MWA Grand Master Paretsky’s riveting 20th novel featuring the intrepid Chicago PI (after 2017’s Fall Out). The ...

The iconic writer’s upcoming crime novel explores how “older women can still come through in a crisis," the author tells PEOPLE Bestselling author Sara Paretsky is back with a new crime fiction novel ...

Just back from an Italian vacation, a chastened but still intrepid V.I.Warshawki soon finds herself embroiled in a new investigation—one that threatens her sense of self, not to mention her life. In ...

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Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths. By Sarah Weinman Many crime novels are known ...