Sara Paretsky's Blog, page 19

The Age of Fear

I'm taking part in a new series on the Investigation Discovery channel called "Hardcover Mysteries," where I join Sandra Brown, Linda Fairstein and others in presenting true crimes, and I just spent a couple of days in Los Angeles to help present the show to the Television Critics Association.  Dave Cargill, who produced the series, is from Scotland, and that soft brogue has persuaded stronger people than me to do more unlikely things.  The story we worked on was a sad case of domestic...

Really, How Well Do You Know V I Warshawski?

Body Work will be in stores on August 31st. Here's your chance to get a signed pre-pub copy of the actual book. A lot of people complained that the questions in the "How Well Do You Know V I?" quiz were too simple.  What question should we have asked to make the contest as tough as V I? Submit your question to vi-bodywork@mindspring.com. We will pick a winner on August 15th, and the winner will be chosen on totally subjective criteria. Among the considerations will be: Is it really...

And the Winners Are…

We're happy to announce three winners of advance reader copies of Body Work. These people knew their V I and were lucky in the drawing:

Celeste Day Moore, Lorraine Flatt, and Stine Bakkelokken

Congratulations and thanks for taking part.

Just Three Days Left…

… to enter the "How well do you know V I Warshawski" contest. Your chance for a signed advance reader copy is just a mouse click away.

Publishers Weekly gives Body Work a Star

Body Work
Sara Paretsky, Putnam, $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-15674-8
Paretsky's superb 14th novel featuring PI V.I. Warshawski (after Hardball) delves into Chicago's avant-garde art scene. At the trendy Club Gouge, where Warshawski is keeping an eye on Petra, a young cousin who caused trouble in the previous book, performance artist Karen Buckley (aka the Body Artist) invites members of the audience to step on stage to paint her nude body. The intricate design that one woman paints on Karen's ...

Mini Hiatus

We're making a video, a sort of "day in the life" in V I's Chicago.  I'm also taking part in Discovery Channel's new "Hardcover Mysteries" series.  I'll let you know the run date.  That, getting ready to launch Body Work, and trying to come up with a storyline for a new book have kept me from attending to this blog–sorry to leave everyone hanging, but I'll be back with a new post soon!

How Well Do You Know V I Warshawski?

I've received bound galleys of Body Work, the new V I novel, from Putnam's, and I have three to give away to the people who know V I best.

Answer these five questions correctly, and your name will go into a hat for a drawing on August 2.  Send your answers to: vi-bodywork@mindspring.com if you want to keep them secret, or answer them right here on the comments page.

1. What is V I's middle name?

2. How many wine glasses did V I's mother bring with her from Italy?

3.  Where did V I go to...

We the People

of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do establish and ordain this Constitution of the United States of America.

Yesterday was the Fourth of July, and I went with my husband, dog and granddaughter to watch fireworks.  We had a traditional chicken dinner, and ice cream, and a good time was had by all, except the dog, who's...

Guilty

Yesterday, a jury found former Chicago police commander Jon Burge guilty.  Not of the torture which it's alleged he committed and/or oversaw in his years as a detective and commander in Chicago Police Area 2, but of lying about the torture under oath.

Jon Burge at the Federal Building on June 8 this year

Many hundreds of people were (allegedly) tortured, some into confessing to crimes they didn't commit.  Others were never charged with a crime.  Despite notifying the Cook County State's...

Call of the Wild

Kathy Lyndes, a friend of mine, and her partner are drawn to the lives of wolves.  They just came back from eight days on Isle Royale, assisting in a project to track wolf habits and habitats.  The whole trip seemed so fascinating, and yet so physically challenging, that I asked her to share the adventure with you.  So what follows is my first guest blog.

In June, 2010, my partner, Louis, and I were two of seventeen volunteers to collect moose bones as part of the fifty year Isle Royale...