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January 22, 2024

Get a Free Paretsky Short Story

Pay Dirt is a prequel to the adventures of Cady Perec. Cady is a social studies teacher in Lawrence, Kansas, who plays a big role in Pay Dirt. She also appeared […]

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December 17, 2023

Sara on the Axe Files

Sara joined David Axelrod, founder and director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, on his CNN podcast The Axe Files. She talked about her family history, the recent […]

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September 5, 2023

David Thompson Special Service Award

Sara is pleased to be this year’s recipient of the David Thompson Special Service Award, given by the Bouchercon Board to honor the memory and contributions to the crime fiction […]

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April 28, 2023

Coming April 16, 2024: Pay Dirt

V.I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her sardonic humor, and her unflinching courage. All that changed when a case ended with a father killing the child she’d been hired to find. She’s second-guessing herself, forgetting to eat, forgetting her workout.

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June 3, 2022

The Reviews Are In!

Overboard is now on sale everywhere and I’m pleased to report that the reviews have been positive. The Washington Post chose it as one of their 10 noteworthy books for […]

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November 16, 2020

Preorder Overboard

V.I. is back in Overboard. On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski is led by her dogs on a mad chase that ends when they discover a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The girl only regains consciousness long enough to utter one enigmatic word.

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September 23, 2020

Interview on Love & Other Crimes

On Sept. 14, Brian Vakulskas interviewed Sara for radio KSCJ about her new collection of short stories, Love & Other Crimes. Click to listen to this 16 min. interview.

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July 22, 2020

Love & Other Crimes Launch Events

On Wednesday, July 29 at 7 pm Women and Children First is hosting a virtual launch of Love & Other Crimes on my FaceBook page. I will read from Love & Other Crimes and will answer questions […]

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March 15, 2017

Watch V.I. in Action in this Video

If you’ve read the V.I. Warshawski books or stories, you know she travels the city up and down. She started when she was a child, performing hair-raising escapades with her cousin Boom-Boom, and she’s still racing around Chicago today.

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November 18, 2015

BRUSH BACK named one of the best thrillers of 2015

The Washington Post named BRUSH BACK, Sara’s most recent novel, one of 2015’s top 5 thrillers.

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