Sara Paretsky

Novels

Click below to browse Sara’s library of novels.

Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas centers on the Grelliers and the Schapens, two families who have been farming in the Kaw River Valley for over a 150 years, and how their lives are affected by war and by the changing sexual and religious mores of the day. more >

Fire Sale
When V I takes over coaching duties of the girls’ basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms, who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes. more >

Blacklist
Eager for physical action in the spirit-numbing wake of 9/11, V I Warshawski is glad to take on a routine stake-out for her most important client, Darraugh Graham. more >

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. more >

Hard Time
Multimedia conglomerate Global Entertainment has purchased the Chicago Herald-Star, forcing the paper's staff to scramble to stay employed. more >

Ghost Country
Harriet and Mara Stonds have been raised in luxury by their grandfather, famous neurosurgeon Abraham Stonds. Harriet is the apple of her grandfather's eye--tall, blond, successful at everything she does, always the good girl. more >

Tunnel Vision
Her office building is falling down, the unpaid bills are mounting up. V I Warshawski needs a lucrative case and needs it fast. Instead, her most important client demands that she find a community service job to keep his computer-hacking son out of jail. more >

Guardian Angel
Racine Avenue is going upscale—bad news for hand-to-mouth residents like V I Warshawski. As tax bills skyrocket, newcomers pressure old inhabitants into fixing up their homes or moving out. more >

Burn Marks
Elena, V I Warshawski’s derelict aunt, re-enters her niece’s life at three in the morning. Burned out of her SRO hotel, Elena has turned to V I for a place to stay. V I vows that it will be a short visit and uses some old political contacts to find Elena a room. more >

Blood Shot
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 father for me." more >

Bitter Medicine
Bitter Medicine, V I's fourth case, starts when a young friend goes into premature labor. V I and Consuelo are far from home. By the time Consuelo's doctor, young Malcolm Tregiere, arrives, both she and her baby are dead at the local for profit hospital. more >

Killing Orders
Killing Orders starts when V I's great-aunt Rosa summons the detective to her cold suburban home. Rosa made V I's childhood miserable and the detective resents the command to help her aunt prove she didn't embezzle five million dollars from a local Dominican priory. more >

Deadlock
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-slicked pier on Chicago’s busy waterfront. more >

Indemnity Only
In this gripping adventure, the first V I Warshawski mystery, America’s top private eye is tossed into dangerous adventure when a seemingly straightforward assignment becomes complicated and deadly. more >