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Credited with transforming the mystery through the creation of her female private eye, V I Warshawski, Paretsky’s books are international best sellers, appearing in almost thirty languages.
News
Shell Game, the 19th V I Warshawski novel, is available everywhere.
All are welcome to join Sara as she receives the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award for lifetime achievement on May 9 at 5 pm at the Newberry Library. A host of speakers, including Lori Rader Day, Ann Christophersen, Dominick Abel, Luis Alberto Urrea, Donna Seaman, Neil Harris, Heather Ash, and Margaret Kinsman, will give short 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
If you’ve read any of the VI Warshawski books or stories, you know she travels the city up and down. Click here to see V I in action in this book trailer created by three young cineastes from the University of Chicago.
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.
Blog
May 12, 2019 // 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 […]
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