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Sara Paretsky is a modern American author of detective fiction. Paretsky was raised in Kansas, and graduated from the state university with a degree in political science. She did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in 1968 to work there. She ultimately completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago, entitled The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War, and finally earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Married to a professor of physics at the University of Chicago, she has lived in Chicago since 1968.

The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is V.I. Warshawski, a female private investigator. Warshawski's eclecti...more


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Average rating: 3.71 · 17,923 ratings · 1,656 reviews · 86 distinct works
Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawsk...
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 2,056 ratings — published 1982 — 34 editions
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Blood Shot (V.I. Warshawski, #...
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 1,304 ratings — published 1988 — 17 editions
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Hardball (V.I. Warshawski, #13...
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Fire Sale (V.I. Warshawski, #1...
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Hard Time (V.I. Warshawski, #9...
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Blacklist (V.I. Warshawski, #1...
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 1,127 ratings24 editions
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Body Work
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 1,034 ratings23 editions
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Burn Marks (V.I. Warshawski, #...
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 990 ratings18 editions
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Killing Orders (V.I. Warshawsk...
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 947 ratings — published 1985 — 25 editions
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Deadlock (V.I. Warshawski, #2)
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 931 ratings — published 1984 — 31 editions
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Powerful writing and a stomach-turning description of South AFrica as Apartheid legislation was ruthlessly put in place in the early Fifties. Must read on how a twisted ideology can pervert a country and its social/civil institutions
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“The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.”
Sara Paretsky, Bleeding Kansas

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