AUTHOR SARA PARETSKYABOUTBOOKSNEWSEVENTSBLOGCONTACT News. Dead Land is now available in paperback at bookstores everywhere. If you’d like a personalized copy, you can order one by 5 pm on April 6 from Women and Children First.. Kirkus Reviews has included Dead Land as one of the best mysteries for 2020. You can see the full list, here. You can hear a recent program of a conversation between Sara and author Margaret Kinsman, sponsored by SARA PARETSKY'S NOVELS A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. There the detective finds herself in the middle of local feuds over an ancient anti-war protest, but much more ominously, her searches turn up a number of dead and dying

women.

BREAKDOWN | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Breakdown is the title of the new V I novel, which will be published early next year. In this excerpt, an old law school friend of V I’s has called on the detective for help, and V I is trying to find her. V I describes Leydon like this: Leydon Ashford was the first person HARD TIME BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Hard Time. Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky’s incomparable character V I Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full-length appearance since 1994’s Tunnel Vision. CRITICAL MASS BY SARA PARETSKY Critical Mass New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky’s brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. FALLOUT | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Read an excerpt from Fallout A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. At loose ends – her lover is in Switzerland while her beloved cranky neighbor, Mr. Contreras is on a Caribbean island with DEAD LAND BY SARA PARETSKY Dead Land. Read an excerpt from Dead Land. Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, but V.I. Warshawski knows its politics: “Pay to Play.” Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects. TOTAL RECALL BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Total Recall. When a man claiming to be a survivor of the Nazi death camps seeks out his family among Lotty Herschel’s circle of friends, he forces her to confront a memory from the war she has long refused

to

PHOTO FINISH ( A V I WARSHAWSKI STORY) Note: I’ve been juggling a few too many things lately to work on my alchemy story, so I thought I’d post a story I wrote a few years back that was published in the now-defunct Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine and is almost never anthologized–I hope you’ll find it

new to you. I When

COURTENAY WRIGHT, 1923 Courtenay served in the Royal Navy during World War II. At age 20, he was the radar officer on the HMS Apollo, which took Eisenhower and Montgomery to Normandy on D-Day Plus One. AUTHOR SARA PARETSKYABOUTBOOKSNEWSEVENTSBLOGCONTACT News. Dead Land is now available in paperback at bookstores everywhere. If you’d like a personalized copy, you can order one by 5 pm on April 6 from Women and Children First.. Kirkus Reviews has included Dead Land as one of the best mysteries for 2020. You can see the full list, here. You can hear a recent program of a conversation between Sara and author Margaret Kinsman, sponsored by SARA PARETSKY'S NOVELS A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. There the detective finds herself in the middle of local feuds over an ancient anti-war protest, but much more ominously, her searches turn up a number of dead and dying

women.

BREAKDOWN | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Breakdown is the title of the new V I novel, which will be published early next year. In this excerpt, an old law school friend of V I’s has called on the detective for help, and V I is trying to find her. V I describes Leydon like this: Leydon Ashford was the first person HARD TIME BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Hard Time. Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky’s incomparable character V I Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full-length appearance since 1994’s Tunnel Vision. CRITICAL MASS BY SARA PARETSKY Critical Mass New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky’s brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. FALLOUT | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Read an excerpt from Fallout A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. At loose ends – her lover is in Switzerland while her beloved cranky neighbor, Mr. Contreras is on a Caribbean island with DEAD LAND BY SARA PARETSKY Dead Land. Read an excerpt from Dead Land. Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, but V.I. Warshawski knows its politics: “Pay to Play.” Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects. TOTAL RECALL BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Total Recall. When a man claiming to be a survivor of the Nazi death camps seeks out his family among Lotty Herschel’s circle of friends, he forces her to confront a memory from the war she has long refused

to

PHOTO FINISH ( A V I WARSHAWSKI STORY) Note: I’ve been juggling a few too many things lately to work on my alchemy story, so I thought I’d post a story I wrote a few years back that was published in the now-defunct Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine and is almost never anthologized–I hope you’ll find it

new to you. I When

COURTENAY WRIGHT, 1923 Courtenay served in the Royal Navy during World War II. At age 20, he was the radar officer on the HMS Apollo, which took Eisenhower and Montgomery to Normandy on D-Day Plus One. NEWS FROM AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Dead Land is now available in paperback at bookstores everywhere. If you’d like a personalized copy, you can order one by 5 pm on April 6 from Women and Children First.. Kirkus Reviews has included Dead Land as one of the best mysteries for 2020. You can see the full list, here. You can hear a recent program of a conversation between Sara and author Margaret Kinsman, sponsored by AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY'S BIOGRAPHY Before there was Lisbeth Salander or Stephanie Plum, there was V I Warshawski. Sara Paretsky revolutionized the mystery world in 1982 when she introduced V I in Indemnity Only. By creating a believable investigator with the grit and the smarts to tackle problems on the mean streets, Paretsky challenged a genre in which women typically were either vamps or victims. BREAKDOWN | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Breakdown is the title of the new V I novel, which will be published early next year. In this excerpt, an old law school friend of V I’s has called on the detective for help, and V I is trying to find her. V I describes Leydon like this: Leydon Ashford was the first person BLEEDING KANSAS BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas is about how the lives of ordinary people are affected by events over which they have little control. The book centers on the Grelliers and the Schapens, two families who have been farming in the Kaw River Valley for over a hundred-fifty years, and how their lives are affected by war and by the changing sexual and religious mores of the day. DEADLOCK BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Deadlock. Deadlock, V I Warshawski’s second case, involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry.Once again the subject is murder—this time the “accidental death” of Boom-Boom Warshawski, an ex-hockey star and V I’s beloved cousin, who fell—or was pushed—off a rain WINDY CITY BLUES BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Windy City Blues. It’s strictly Friends & Family as V I Warshawski, “the detective mystery fans have been waiting for” (Time), makes return appearances in a collection of stories that brings new meaning to “ties that bind.”Decked out in her silk shirts and no-nonsense

Attitude, V I

BLOOD SHOT BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Delacorte Press, New York, 1988. Victor Gollancz, London. Paperback

ISBN: 0440204208

LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES In June, I’ll be publishing 14 of my short stories, under the title Love and Other Crimes. Some of these stories are new, some have already been published. Some feature VI, some are standalone. Two – “Wildcat” and “Death on the Edge” – were published only as ebooks and so now will be available in WILDCAT: V I WARSHAWSKI’S FIRST CASE Read an excerpt here. Sara Paretsky, one of the most legendary crime writers of all time, presents an exclusive and thrilling short story featuring beloved investigator V.I. Warshawski as a ten-year-old girl on her first investigation. V.I. Warshawski developed her strength and sense of justice at a very early age. It’s 1966 and on the SHELL GAME BY SARA PARETSKY Read an excerpt from Shell Game Shell Game is just another name for Three-card Monte and VI Warshawski is normally too streetwise to get involved in a mug's game. However, when her oldest friend's nephew is framed for the murder of a man found dead in a forest near Chicago and

her own niece has

AUTHOR SARA PARETSKYABOUTBOOKSNEWSEVENTSBLOGCONTACT News. Dead Land is now available in paperback at bookstores everywhere. If you’d like a personalized copy, you can order one by 5 pm on April 6 from Women and Children First.. Kirkus Reviews has included Dead Land as one of the best mysteries for 2020. You can see the full list, here. You can hear a recent program of a conversation between Sara and author Margaret Kinsman, sponsored by SARA PARETSKY'S NOVELS A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. There the detective finds herself in the middle of local feuds over an ancient anti-war protest, but much more ominously, her searches turn up a number of dead and dying

women.

HARD TIME BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Hard Time. Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky’s incomparable character V I Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full-length appearance since 1994’s Tunnel Vision. Hard Time is the work of a master–a riveting novel of suspense that is BREAKDOWN | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Breakdown is the title of the new V I novel, which will be published early next year. In this excerpt, an old law school friend of V I’s has called on the detective for help, and V I is trying to find her. V I describes Leydon like this: Leydon Ashford was the first person CRITICAL MASS BY SARA PARETSKY Critical Mass. New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky’s brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. V.I. Warshawski’s closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel DEAD LAND BY SARA PARETSKY Dead Land. Read an excerpt from Dead Land. Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, but V.I. Warshawski knows its politics: “Pay to Play.” Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects. FALLOUT | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Read an excerpt from Fallout A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. At loose ends – her lover is in Switzerland while her beloved cranky neighbor, Mr. Contreras is on a Caribbean island with TOTAL RECALL BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Total Recall. When a man claiming to be a survivor of the Nazi death camps seeks out his family among Lotty Herschel’s circle of friends, he forces her to confront a memory from the war she has long refused to think about. As a frightened V I watches her longtime friend and mentor unravel, she comes to Lotty’s help in the only way she know PHOTO FINISH ( A V I WARSHAWSKI STORY) The two met, married, produced young Hunter. “That’s why I lived in Europe as a child: after the war my father covered hot spots in Africa and Asia. My mother and I lived in Paris during the school year and joined him on assignment during the summer. Then she died, in a car wreck in South Africa. COURTENAY WRIGHT, 1923 Courtenay Wright, 1923 – 2018. My husband Courtenay turned 95 on October 16. He died a month later on November 22, but Professor Young-Kee Kim, chair of the physics department at the University of Chicago, hosted a lunch in his honor shortly before his death. Here

are the remarks I

AUTHOR SARA PARETSKYABOUTBOOKSNEWSEVENTSBLOGCONTACT News. Dead Land is now available in paperback at bookstores everywhere. If you’d like a personalized copy, you can order one by 5 pm on April 6 from Women and Children First.. Kirkus Reviews has included Dead Land as one of the best mysteries for 2020. You can see the full list, here. You can hear a recent program of a conversation between Sara and author Margaret Kinsman, sponsored by SARA PARETSKY'S NOVELS A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. There the detective finds herself in the middle of local feuds over an ancient anti-war protest, but much more ominously, her searches turn up a number of dead and dying

women.

HARD TIME BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Hard Time. Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky’s incomparable character V I Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full-length appearance since 1994’s Tunnel Vision. Hard Time is the work of a master–a riveting novel of suspense that is BREAKDOWN | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Breakdown is the title of the new V I novel, which will be published early next year. In this excerpt, an old law school friend of V I’s has called on the detective for help, and V I is trying to find her. V I describes Leydon like this: Leydon Ashford was the first person CRITICAL MASS BY SARA PARETSKY Critical Mass. New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky’s brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. V.I. Warshawski’s closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel DEAD LAND BY SARA PARETSKY Dead Land. Read an excerpt from Dead Land. Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, but V.I. Warshawski knows its politics: “Pay to Play.” Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects. FALLOUT | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Read an excerpt from Fallout A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. At loose ends – her lover is in Switzerland while her beloved cranky neighbor, Mr. Contreras is on a Caribbean island with TOTAL RECALL BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Total Recall. When a man claiming to be a survivor of the Nazi death camps seeks out his family among Lotty Herschel’s circle of friends, he forces her to confront a memory from the war she has long refused to think about. As a frightened V I watches her longtime friend and mentor unravel, she comes to Lotty’s help in the only way she know PHOTO FINISH ( A V I WARSHAWSKI STORY) The two met, married, produced young Hunter. “That’s why I lived in Europe as a child: after the war my father covered hot spots in Africa and Asia. My mother and I lived in Paris during the school year and joined him on assignment during the summer. Then she died, in a car wreck in South Africa. COURTENAY WRIGHT, 1923 Courtenay Wright, 1923 – 2018. My husband Courtenay turned 95 on October 16. He died a month later on November 22, but Professor Young-Kee Kim, chair of the physics department at the University of Chicago, hosted a lunch in his honor shortly before his death. Here

are the remarks I

NEWS FROM AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Mystery to Me, May 4 (Crowdcast) The latest from Sara, Dead Land, was released April 21, 2020. “As usual, Paretsky (Shell Game, 2018, etc.) is less interested in identifying whodunit than in uncovering a monstrous web of evil, and this web is one of her densest and most

finely woven ever.

AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY'S BIOGRAPHY Before there was Lisbeth Salander or Stephanie Plum, there was V I Warshawski. Sara Paretsky revolutionized the mystery world in 1982 when she introduced V I in Indemnity Only. By creating a believable investigator with the grit and the smarts to tackle problems on the mean streets, Paretsky challenged a genre in which women typically were either vamps or victims. BREAKDOWN | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Breakdown is the title of the new V I novel, which will be published early next year. In this excerpt, an old law school friend of V I’s has called on the detective for help, and V I is trying to find her. V I describes Leydon like this: Leydon Ashford was the first person DEADLOCK BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Deadlock. Deadlock, V I Warshawski’s second case, involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry.Once again the subject is murder—this time the “accidental death” of Boom-Boom Warshawski, an ex-hockey star and V I’s beloved cousin, who fell—or was pushed—off a rain BLEEDING KANSAS BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas is about how the lives of ordinary people are affected by events over which they have little control. The book centers on the Grelliers and the Schapens, two families who have been farming in the Kaw River Valley for over a hundred-fifty years, and how their lives are affected by war and by the changing sexual and religious mores of the day. LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES In June, I’ll be publishing 14 of my short stories, under the title Love and Other Crimes. Some of these stories are new, some have already been published. Some feature VI, some are standalone. Two – “Wildcat” and “Death on the Edge” – were published only WINDY CITY BLUES BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Windy City Blues. It’s strictly Friends & Family as V I Warshawski, “the detective mystery fans have been waiting for” (Time), makes return appearances in a collection of stories that brings new meaning to “ties that bind.”Decked out in her silk shirts and no-nonsense

Attitude, V I

WILDCAT: V I WARSHAWSKI’S FIRST CASE Read an excerpt here. Sara Paretsky, one of the most legendary crime writers of all time, presents an exclusive and thrilling short story featuring beloved investigator V.I. Warshawski as a ten-year-old girl on her first investigation. V.I. Warshawski developed her strength and sense of justice at a very early age. It’s 1966 and on the BLOOD SHOT BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Blood Shot. In her fifth V I novel, Sara Paretsky brings the private investigator back to her old neighborhood and to the past she cannot escape. Blood Shot begins innocently enough when V I attends the reunion of her championship basketball team and Caroline, a childhood friend who organized the event, asks V I a professional favor: “Find

my

SHELL GAME BY SARA PARETSKY Shell Game is just another name for Three-card Monte and VI Warshawski is normally too streetwise to get involved in a mug’s game. However, when her oldest friend’s nephew is framed for the murder of a man found dead in a forest near Chicago and her own niece has vanished without a trace, VI has to play by someone else’s rules. AUTHOR SARA PARETSKYABOUTBOOKSNEWSEVENTSBLOGCONTACT News. Dead Land is now available in paperback at bookstores everywhere. If you’d like a personalized copy, you can order one by 5 pm on April 6 from Women and Children First.. Kirkus Reviews has included Dead Land as one of the best mysteries for 2020. You can see the full list, here. You can hear a recent program of a conversation between Sara and author Margaret Kinsman, sponsored by SARA PARETSKY'S NOVELS A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. There the detective finds herself in the middle of local feuds over an ancient anti-war protest, but much more ominously, her searches turn up a number of dead and dying

women.

NEWS FROM AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Mystery to Me, May 4 (Crowdcast) The latest from Sara, Dead Land, was released April 21, 2020. “As usual, Paretsky (Shell Game, 2018, etc.) is less interested in identifying whodunit than in uncovering a monstrous web of evil, and this web is one of her densest and most

finely woven ever.

AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY'S BIOGRAPHY Before there was Lisbeth Salander or Stephanie Plum, there was V I Warshawski. Sara Paretsky revolutionized the mystery world in 1982 when she introduced V I in Indemnity Only. By creating a believable investigator with the grit and the smarts to tackle problems on the mean streets, Paretsky challenged a genre in which women typically were either vamps or victims. FALLOUT | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Read an excerpt from Fallout A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. At loose ends – her lover is in Switzerland while her beloved cranky neighbor, Mr. Contreras is on a Caribbean island with DEAD LAND BY SARA PARETSKY Dead Land. Read an excerpt from Dead Land. Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, but V.I. Warshawski knows its politics: “Pay to Play.” Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects. TOTAL RECALL BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Total Recall. When a man claiming to be a survivor of the Nazi death camps seeks out his family among Lotty Herschel’s circle of friends, he forces her to confront a memory from the war she has long refused to think about. As a frightened V I watches her longtime friend and mentor unravel, she comes to Lotty’s help in the only way she know TUNNEL VISION BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Delacorte Press, New York, 1994. Hamish Hamilton, London. Hardcover: 432 pages ISBN: 038529932X. Paperback: 480 pages ISBN: 0440217520 PHOTO FINISH ( A V I WARSHAWSKI STORY) The two met, married, produced young Hunter. “That’s why I lived in Europe as a child: after the war my father covered hot spots in Africa and Asia. My mother and I lived in Paris during the school year and joined him on assignment during the summer. Then she died, in a car wreck in South Africa. COURTENAY WRIGHT, 1923 Courtenay Wright, 1923 – 2018. My husband Courtenay turned 95 on October 16. He died a month later on November 22, but Professor Young-Kee Kim, chair of the physics department at the University of Chicago, hosted a lunch in his honor shortly before his death. Here

are the remarks I

AUTHOR SARA PARETSKYABOUTBOOKSNEWSEVENTSBLOGCONTACT News. Dead Land is now available in paperback at bookstores everywhere. If you’d like a personalized copy, you can order one by 5 pm on April 6 from Women and Children First.. Kirkus Reviews has included Dead Land as one of the best mysteries for 2020. You can see the full list, here. You can hear a recent program of a conversation between Sara and author Margaret Kinsman, sponsored by SARA PARETSKY'S NOVELS A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. There the detective finds herself in the middle of local feuds over an ancient anti-war protest, but much more ominously, her searches turn up a number of dead and dying

women.

NEWS FROM AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Mystery to Me, May 4 (Crowdcast) The latest from Sara, Dead Land, was released April 21, 2020. “As usual, Paretsky (Shell Game, 2018, etc.) is less interested in identifying whodunit than in uncovering a monstrous web of evil, and this web is one of her densest and most

finely woven ever.

AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY'S BIOGRAPHY Before there was Lisbeth Salander or Stephanie Plum, there was V I Warshawski. Sara Paretsky revolutionized the mystery world in 1982 when she introduced V I in Indemnity Only. By creating a believable investigator with the grit and the smarts to tackle problems on the mean streets, Paretsky challenged a genre in which women typically were either vamps or victims. FALLOUT | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Read an excerpt from Fallout A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. At loose ends – her lover is in Switzerland while her beloved cranky neighbor, Mr. Contreras is on a Caribbean island with DEAD LAND BY SARA PARETSKY Dead Land. Read an excerpt from Dead Land. Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, but V.I. Warshawski knows its politics: “Pay to Play.” Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects. TOTAL RECALL BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Total Recall. When a man claiming to be a survivor of the Nazi death camps seeks out his family among Lotty Herschel’s circle of friends, he forces her to confront a memory from the war she has long refused to think about. As a frightened V I watches her longtime friend and mentor unravel, she comes to Lotty’s help in the only way she know TUNNEL VISION BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Delacorte Press, New York, 1994. Hamish Hamilton, London. Hardcover: 432 pages ISBN: 038529932X. Paperback: 480 pages ISBN: 0440217520 PHOTO FINISH ( A V I WARSHAWSKI STORY) The two met, married, produced young Hunter. “That’s why I lived in Europe as a child: after the war my father covered hot spots in Africa and Asia. My mother and I lived in Paris during the school year and joined him on assignment during the summer. Then she died, in a car wreck in South Africa. COURTENAY WRIGHT, 1923 Courtenay Wright, 1923 – 2018. My husband Courtenay turned 95 on October 16. He died a month later on November 22, but Professor Young-Kee Kim, chair of the physics department at the University of Chicago, hosted a lunch in his honor shortly before his death. Here

are the remarks I

NEWS FROM AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Mystery to Me, May 4 (Crowdcast) The latest from Sara, Dead Land, was released April 21, 2020. “As usual, Paretsky (Shell Game, 2018, etc.) is less interested in identifying whodunit than in uncovering a monstrous web of evil, and this web is one of her densest and most

finely woven ever.

AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY'S BIOGRAPHY Before there was Lisbeth Salander or Stephanie Plum, there was V I Warshawski. Sara Paretsky revolutionized the mystery world in 1982 when she introduced V I in Indemnity Only. By creating a believable investigator with the grit and the smarts to tackle problems on the mean streets, Paretsky challenged a genre in which women typically were either vamps or victims. AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY'S PODCASTS Click below to listen to author Sara Paretsky read from Hardball, Chapter 1. Part 1 of 2. Hardball, Chapter 1, Part 1. The cold that winter ate into our bones. You can’t imagine, living where you turn a dial and as much heat as you want glows from the radiator, but everything in England then was fueled by coal and there were terrible CRITICAL MASS BY SARA PARETSKY Critical Mass. Read an excerpt from Critical Mass. New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky’s brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. BREAKDOWN | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Breakdown is the title of the new V I novel, which will be published early next year. In this excerpt, an old law school friend of V I’s has called on the detective for help, and V I is trying to find her. V I describes Leydon like this: Leydon Ashford was the first person BLEEDING KANSAS BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas is about how the lives of ordinary people are affected by events over which they have little control. The book centers on the Grelliers and the Schapens, two families who have been farming in the Kaw River Valley for over a hundred-fifty years, and how their lives are affected by war and by the changing sexual and religious mores of the day. WILDCAT: V I WARSHAWSKI’S FIRST CASE Read an excerpt here. Sara Paretsky, one of the most legendary crime writers of all time, presents an exclusive and thrilling short story featuring beloved investigator V.I. Warshawski as a ten-year-old girl on her first investigation. V.I. Warshawski developed her strength and sense of justice at a very early age. It’s 1966 and on the WINDY CITY BLUES BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Windy City Blues. It’s strictly Friends & Family as V I Warshawski, “the detective mystery fans have been waiting for” (Time), makes return appearances in a collection of stories that brings new meaning to “ties that bind.”Decked out in her silk shirts and no-nonsense

Attitude, V I

LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES In June, I’ll be publishing 14 of my short stories, under the title Love and Other Crimes. Some of these stories are new, some have already been published. Some feature VI, some are standalone. Two – “Wildcat” and “Death on the Edge” – were published only DEAD LAND NOW IN PAPERBACK Dead Land now in paperback. Dead Land is now available in paperback at your favorite bookstore. I’ll be signing copies at Women and Children First, so if you want a personalized edition, please contact them by April 6 at 5 pm. This entry was posted on Thursday, April 1st,

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AUTHOR SARA PARETSKYABOUTBOOKSNEWSEVENTSBLOGCONTACT News. Dead Land is now available in paperback at bookstores everywhere. If you’d like a personalized copy, you can order one by 5 pm on April 6 from Women and Children First.. Kirkus Reviews has included Dead Land as one of the best mysteries for 2020. You can see the full list, here. You can hear a recent program of a conversation between Sara and author Margaret Kinsman, sponsored by SARA PARETSKY'S NOVELS A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. There the detective finds herself in the middle of local feuds over an ancient anti-war protest, but much more ominously, her searches turn up a number of dead and dying

women.

NEWS FROM AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Mystery to Me, May 4 (Crowdcast) The latest from Sara, Dead Land, was released April 21, 2020. “As usual, Paretsky (Shell Game, 2018, etc.) is less interested in identifying whodunit than in uncovering a monstrous web of evil, and this web is one of her densest and most

finely woven ever.

AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY'S BIOGRAPHY Before there was Lisbeth Salander or Stephanie Plum, there was V I Warshawski. Sara Paretsky revolutionized the mystery world in 1982 when she introduced V I in Indemnity Only. By creating a believable investigator with the grit and the smarts to tackle problems on the mean streets, Paretsky challenged a genre in which women typically were either vamps or victims. CRITICAL MASS BY SARA PARETSKY Critical Mass. New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky’s brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. V.I. Warshawski’s closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel DEAD LAND BY SARA PARETSKY Dead Land. Read an excerpt from Dead Land. Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, but V.I. Warshawski knows its politics: “Pay to Play.” Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects. FALLOUT | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKYFALLOUT SARA PARETSKYAUTHOR SARA BLAEDELSARA PARETSKY AUTHOR Read an excerpt from Fallout A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. At loose ends – her lover is in Switzerland while her beloved cranky neighbor, Mr. Contreras is on a Caribbean island with SHELL GAME BY SARA PARETSKY Shell Game is just another name for Three-card Monte and VI Warshawski is normally too streetwise to get involved in a mug’s game. However, when her oldest friend’s nephew is framed for the murder of a man found dead in a forest near Chicago and her own niece has vanished without a trace, VI has to play by someone else’s rules. PHOTO FINISH ( A V I WARSHAWSKI STORY) The two met, married, produced young Hunter. “That’s why I lived in Europe as a child: after the war my father covered hot spots in Africa and Asia. My mother and I lived in Paris during the school year and joined him on assignment during the summer. Then she died, in a car wreck in South Africa. COURTENAY WRIGHT, 1923 Courtenay Wright, 1923 – 2018. My husband Courtenay turned 95 on October 16. He died a month later on November 22, but Professor Young-Kee Kim, chair of the physics department at the University of Chicago, hosted a lunch in his honor shortly before his death. Here

are the remarks I

AUTHOR SARA PARETSKYABOUTBOOKSNEWSEVENTSBLOGCONTACT News. Dead Land is now available in paperback at bookstores everywhere. If you’d like a personalized copy, you can order one by 5 pm on April 6 from Women and Children First.. Kirkus Reviews has included Dead Land as one of the best mysteries for 2020. You can see the full list, here. You can hear a recent program of a conversation between Sara and author Margaret Kinsman, sponsored by SARA PARETSKY'S NOVELS A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. There the detective finds herself in the middle of local feuds over an ancient anti-war protest, but much more ominously, her searches turn up a number of dead and dying

women.

NEWS FROM AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Mystery to Me, May 4 (Crowdcast) The latest from Sara, Dead Land, was released April 21, 2020. “As usual, Paretsky (Shell Game, 2018, etc.) is less interested in identifying whodunit than in uncovering a monstrous web of evil, and this web is one of her densest and most

finely woven ever.

AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY'S BIOGRAPHY Before there was Lisbeth Salander or Stephanie Plum, there was V I Warshawski. Sara Paretsky revolutionized the mystery world in 1982 when she introduced V I in Indemnity Only. By creating a believable investigator with the grit and the smarts to tackle problems on the mean streets, Paretsky challenged a genre in which women typically were either vamps or victims. CRITICAL MASS BY SARA PARETSKY Critical Mass. New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky’s brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. V.I. Warshawski’s closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel DEAD LAND BY SARA PARETSKY Dead Land. Read an excerpt from Dead Land. Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, but V.I. Warshawski knows its politics: “Pay to Play.” Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects. FALLOUT | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Read an excerpt from Fallout A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. At loose ends – her lover is in Switzerland while her beloved cranky neighbor, Mr. Contreras is on a Caribbean island with SHELL GAME BY SARA PARETSKY Shell Game is just another name for Three-card Monte and VI Warshawski is normally too streetwise to get involved in a mug’s game. However, when her oldest friend’s nephew is framed for the murder of a man found dead in a forest near Chicago and her own niece has vanished without a trace, VI has to play by someone else’s rules. PHOTO FINISH ( A V I WARSHAWSKI STORY) The two met, married, produced young Hunter. “That’s why I lived in Europe as a child: after the war my father covered hot spots in Africa and Asia. My mother and I lived in Paris during the school year and joined him on assignment during the summer. Then she died, in a car wreck in South Africa. COURTENAY WRIGHT, 1923 Courtenay Wright, 1923 – 2018. My husband Courtenay turned 95 on October 16. He died a month later on November 22, but Professor Young-Kee Kim, chair of the physics department at the University of Chicago, hosted a lunch in his honor shortly before his death. Here

are the remarks I

NEWS FROM AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Mystery to Me, May 4 (Crowdcast) The latest from Sara, Dead Land, was released April 21, 2020. “As usual, Paretsky (Shell Game, 2018, etc.) is less interested in identifying whodunit than in uncovering a monstrous web of evil, and this web is one of her densest and most

finely woven ever.

FIND UPCOMING EVENTS FOR AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Events. To book Sara Paretsky for a speaking engagement, contact her Speaker’s Bureau: Tuesday Agency. 123 North Linn Street, Suite 2C. Iowa City, Iowa 52245. Phone: 319-338-7080. trinity@tuesdayagency.com. “You were lucky, Ms. Warshawski. ABOUT V.I. WARSHAWSKI About V I. V I Warshawski was born on July 27th, with the sun in Leo and Gemini rising. Her chart reads: “Extremely active by nature, you like to get around and meet people. Very restless, you can’t seem to stay put. Because of the high nervous tension you always have, athletic activity would be a good way for you to burn off energy.”. ON LOSING AND ON BEING LOST I’m misplacing gloves and bank cards, keys and eyeglasses, with more than average frequency. I am grateful to Anna Freud for writing the essay, “On Losing and on Being Lost.” She’s writing about grief, and the way it manifests itself in our behavior. During WWII she ran the Hampstead War Nurseries, which cared for children TOTAL RECALL BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Total Recall. When a man claiming to be a survivor of the Nazi death camps seeks out his family among Lotty Herschel’s circle of friends, he forces her to confront a memory from the war she has long refused to think about. As a frightened V I watches her longtime friend and mentor unravel, she comes to Lotty’s help in the only way she know DEADLOCK BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Deadlock. Deadlock, V I Warshawski’s second case, involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry.Once again the subject is murder—this time the “accidental death” of Boom-Boom Warshawski, an ex-hockey star and V I’s beloved cousin, who fell—or was pushed—off a rain LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES In June, I’ll be publishing 14 of my short stories, under the title Love and Other Crimes. Some of these stories are new, some have already been published. Some feature VI, some are standalone. Two – “Wildcat” and “Death on the Edge” – were published only WINDY CITY BLUES BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Windy City Blues. It’s strictly Friends & Family as V I Warshawski, “the detective mystery fans have been waiting for” (Time), makes return appearances in a collection of stories that brings new meaning to “ties that bind.”Decked out in her silk shirts and no-nonsense

Attitude, V I

WILDCAT: V I WARSHAWSKI’S FIRST CASE Read an excerpt here. Sara Paretsky, one of the most legendary crime writers of all time, presents an exclusive and thrilling short story featuring beloved investigator V.I. Warshawski as a ten-year-old girl on her first investigation. V.I. Warshawski developed her strength and sense of justice at a very early age. It’s 1966 and on the AND NOW – BEWILDERMENT And now – bewilderment. I struggle to be in the now. I was with Courtenay for 47 years and we had the usual trajectory of excitement and its physical passions, moving to a sense of belonging together and then building a life together, but that life feels remote, almost non-existent. At this time, the past is a series of self-lacerations AUTHOR SARA PARETSKYABOUTBOOKSNEWSEVENTSBLOGCONTACT News. Dead Land is now available in paperback at bookstores everywhere. If you’d like a personalized copy, you can order one by 5 pm on April 6 from Women and Children First.. Kirkus Reviews has included Dead Land as one of the best mysteries for 2020. You can see the full list, here. You can hear a recent program of a conversation between Sara and author Margaret Kinsman, sponsored by SARA PARETSKY'S NOVELS A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. There the detective finds herself in the middle of local feuds over an ancient anti-war protest, but much more ominously, her searches turn up a number of dead and dying

women.

NEWS FROM AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Mystery to Me, May 4 (Crowdcast) The latest from Sara, Dead Land, was released April 21, 2020. “As usual, Paretsky (Shell Game, 2018, etc.) is less interested in identifying whodunit than in uncovering a monstrous web of evil, and this web is one of her densest and most

finely woven ever.

AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY'S BIOGRAPHY Before there was Lisbeth Salander or Stephanie Plum, there was V I Warshawski. Sara Paretsky revolutionized the mystery world in 1982 when she introduced V I in Indemnity Only. By creating a believable investigator with the grit and the smarts to tackle problems on the mean streets, Paretsky challenged a genre in which women typically were either vamps or victims. CRITICAL MASS BY SARA PARETSKY Critical Mass. New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky’s brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. V.I. Warshawski’s closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel DEAD LAND BY SARA PARETSKY Dead Land. Read an excerpt from Dead Land. Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, but V.I. Warshawski knows its politics: “Pay to Play.” Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects. FALLOUT | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKYFALLOUT SARA PARETSKYAUTHOR SARA BLAEDELSARA PARETSKY AUTHOR Read an excerpt from Fallout A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. At loose ends – her lover is in Switzerland while her beloved cranky neighbor, Mr. Contreras is on a Caribbean island with SHELL GAME BY SARA PARETSKY Shell Game is just another name for Three-card Monte and VI Warshawski is normally too streetwise to get involved in a mug’s game. However, when her oldest friend’s nephew is framed for the murder of a man found dead in a forest near Chicago and her own niece has vanished without a trace, VI has to play by someone else’s rules. PHOTO FINISH ( A V I WARSHAWSKI STORY) The two met, married, produced young Hunter. “That’s why I lived in Europe as a child: after the war my father covered hot spots in Africa and Asia. My mother and I lived in Paris during the school year and joined him on assignment during the summer. Then she died, in a car wreck in South Africa. COURTENAY WRIGHT, 1923 Courtenay Wright, 1923 – 2018. My husband Courtenay turned 95 on October 16. He died a month later on November 22, but Professor Young-Kee Kim, chair of the physics department at the University of Chicago, hosted a lunch in his honor shortly before his death. Here

are the remarks I

AUTHOR SARA PARETSKYABOUTBOOKSNEWSEVENTSBLOGCONTACT News. Dead Land is now available in paperback at bookstores everywhere. If you’d like a personalized copy, you can order one by 5 pm on April 6 from Women and Children First.. Kirkus Reviews has included Dead Land as one of the best mysteries for 2020. You can see the full list, here. You can hear a recent program of a conversation between Sara and author Margaret Kinsman, sponsored by SARA PARETSKY'S NOVELS A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. There the detective finds herself in the middle of local feuds over an ancient anti-war protest, but much more ominously, her searches turn up a number of dead and dying

women.

NEWS FROM AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Mystery to Me, May 4 (Crowdcast) The latest from Sara, Dead Land, was released April 21, 2020. “As usual, Paretsky (Shell Game, 2018, etc.) is less interested in identifying whodunit than in uncovering a monstrous web of evil, and this web is one of her densest and most

finely woven ever.

AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY'S BIOGRAPHY Before there was Lisbeth Salander or Stephanie Plum, there was V I Warshawski. Sara Paretsky revolutionized the mystery world in 1982 when she introduced V I in Indemnity Only. By creating a believable investigator with the grit and the smarts to tackle problems on the mean streets, Paretsky challenged a genre in which women typically were either vamps or victims. CRITICAL MASS BY SARA PARETSKY Critical Mass. New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky’s brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. V.I. Warshawski’s closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel DEAD LAND BY SARA PARETSKY Dead Land. Read an excerpt from Dead Land. Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, but V.I. Warshawski knows its politics: “Pay to Play.” Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects. FALLOUT | AUTHOR SARA PARETSKYFALLOUT SARA PARETSKYAUTHOR SARA BLAEDELSARA PARETSKY AUTHOR Read an excerpt from Fallout A small Midwestern town is way outside VI Warshawski’s comfort zone, but in Fallout, the detective spends a month in Lawrence, Kansas, where author Sara Paretsky grew up. At loose ends – her lover is in Switzerland while her beloved cranky neighbor, Mr. Contreras is on a Caribbean island with SHELL GAME BY SARA PARETSKY Shell Game is just another name for Three-card Monte and VI Warshawski is normally too streetwise to get involved in a mug’s game. However, when her oldest friend’s nephew is framed for the murder of a man found dead in a forest near Chicago and her own niece has vanished without a trace, VI has to play by someone else’s rules. PHOTO FINISH ( A V I WARSHAWSKI STORY) The two met, married, produced young Hunter. “That’s why I lived in Europe as a child: after the war my father covered hot spots in Africa and Asia. My mother and I lived in Paris during the school year and joined him on assignment during the summer. Then she died, in a car wreck in South Africa. COURTENAY WRIGHT, 1923 Courtenay Wright, 1923 – 2018. My husband Courtenay turned 95 on October 16. He died a month later on November 22, but Professor Young-Kee Kim, chair of the physics department at the University of Chicago, hosted a lunch in his honor shortly before his death. Here

are the remarks I

NEWS FROM AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Mystery to Me, May 4 (Crowdcast) The latest from Sara, Dead Land, was released April 21, 2020. “As usual, Paretsky (Shell Game, 2018, etc.) is less interested in identifying whodunit than in uncovering a monstrous web of evil, and this web is one of her densest and most

finely woven ever.

FIND UPCOMING EVENTS FOR AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Events. To book Sara Paretsky for a speaking engagement, contact her Speaker’s Bureau: Tuesday Agency. 123 North Linn Street, Suite 2C. Iowa City, Iowa 52245. Phone: 319-338-7080. trinity@tuesdayagency.com. “You were lucky, Ms. Warshawski. ABOUT V.I. WARSHAWSKI About V I. V I Warshawski was born on July 27th, with the sun in Leo and Gemini rising. Her chart reads: “Extremely active by nature, you like to get around and meet people. Very restless, you can’t seem to stay put. Because of the high nervous tension you always have, athletic activity would be a good way for you to burn off energy.”. ON LOSING AND ON BEING LOST I’m misplacing gloves and bank cards, keys and eyeglasses, with more than average frequency. I am grateful to Anna Freud for writing the essay, “On Losing and on Being Lost.” She’s writing about grief, and the way it manifests itself in our behavior. During WWII she ran the Hampstead War Nurseries, which cared for children TOTAL RECALL BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Total Recall. When a man claiming to be a survivor of the Nazi death camps seeks out his family among Lotty Herschel’s circle of friends, he forces her to confront a memory from the war she has long refused to think about. As a frightened V I watches her longtime friend and mentor unravel, she comes to Lotty’s help in the only way she know DEADLOCK BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Deadlock. Deadlock, V I Warshawski’s second case, involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry.Once again the subject is murder—this time the “accidental death” of Boom-Boom Warshawski, an ex-hockey star and V I’s beloved cousin, who fell—or was pushed—off a rain LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES In June, I’ll be publishing 14 of my short stories, under the title Love and Other Crimes. Some of these stories are new, some have already been published. Some feature VI, some are standalone. Two – “Wildcat” and “Death on the Edge” – were published only WINDY CITY BLUES BY AUTHOR SARA PARETSKY Windy City Blues. It’s strictly Friends & Family as V I Warshawski, “the detective mystery fans have been waiting for” (Time), makes return appearances in a collection of stories that brings new meaning to “ties that bind.”Decked out in her silk shirts and no-nonsense

Attitude, V I

WILDCAT: V I WARSHAWSKI’S FIRST CASE Read an excerpt here. Sara Paretsky, one of the most legendary crime writers of all time, presents an exclusive and thrilling short story featuring beloved investigator V.I. Warshawski as a ten-year-old girl on her first investigation. V.I. Warshawski developed her strength and sense of justice at a very early age. It’s 1966 and on the AND NOW – BEWILDERMENT And now – bewilderment. I struggle to be in the now. I was with Courtenay for 47 years and we had the usual trajectory of excitement and its physical passions, moving to a sense of belonging together and then building a life together, but that life feels remote, almost non-existent. At this time, the past is a series of self-lacerations

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If you’d like to catch one of the virtual events connected with the _Dead Land_ launch, just click on the links, below. Door-to-Door with James Rollins , April

15 (YouTube)

Women and Children First

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The Raven , April 22 (Crowdcast) (or click here

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The latest from Sara, _DEAD LAND

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April 21, 2020.

_“As usual, Paretsky (Shell Game, 2018, etc.) is less interested in identifying whodunit than in uncovering a monstrous web of evil, and this web is one of her densest and most finely woven ever. So fierce, ambitious, and far-reaching that it makes most other mysteries seem like so many petit fours.” _—Kirkus (starred review) NBC’s Today show interviews Sara (aired Nov. 3, 2019) on the importance of narrator selection for audio books in capturing the essence of the character.  Here Sara is with Susan Erickson, who does the voice-over for her current VI

novels.

__Kate Raphael of KPFA WOMENS MAGAZINE

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Sara in an August 12, 2019 broadcast in conjunction with an archived interview with Toni Morrison : _Groundbreaking Writers Toni Morrison and Sara Paretsky _

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Rader-Day interviews Sara: _Sara Paretsky Writes What’s on Her Mind_, discussing white collar crime, her lifelong activism, and the importance of a good editor. On May 9, 2019, Sara received the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award for lifetime achievement at the Newberry Library

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in the literary world LORI RADER DAY, ANN CHRISTOPHERSEN, DOMINICK ABEL, DONNA SEAMAN, NEIL HARRIS, HEATHER ASH, and MARGARET KINSMAN, gave moving, and humorous, tributes, highlighting Sara’s myriad

accomplishments.

Crime writers have a novel take on reducing gun violence: two dozen short stories of murder without guns. Sara wrote the introduction to

_Unloaded Vol. 2_

Sara is honored to receive the first annual G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award, presented by the Mystery Writers of America at this year’s Edgars.

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November 5, 2019 // In June, I’ll be publishing 14 of my short stories, under the title Love and Other Crimes. Some of these stories are new, some have already been published. Some feature VI, some are standalone. Two – “Wildcat” and “Death on the Edge” – were published only as ebooks and so now will be available in

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