Sara Paretsky

Fallout by Sara Paretsky follows the journey of V.I. Warshawski, who is persuaded by her impossible god-daughter Bernie to search for August, a young filmmaker who has mysteriously disappeared. The clues lead V.I. to Kansas, where August was last seen in the company of Emerald, an older black movie actress intent on filming the story of her life. V.I.'s search...

On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski's dogs lead her on a mad chase that ends when they find a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The girl only regains consciousness long enough to utter one enigmatic word. V.I. helps bring her to a hospital, but not long after, she vanishes before...

A twisty thriller with an unforgettable new protagonist from crime queen Sara Paretsky. The CIA forced Lily to retire before she was ready. She'd spent forty years as a field agent. She'd been skilled, resourceful, dedicated - everything that makes a good agent, but she'd rubbed too many of her bosses the wrong way. They jumped on a botched op...

In this spellbinding collection, Sara Paretsky showcases her extraordinary talents with fourteen short stories, including one new V.I. story and seven other classics featuring the indomitable detective. In Miss Bianca, a young girl becomes involved in espionage when she befriends a mouse in a laboratory that is conducting dark experiments. Ten-year-old V.I. Warshawski appears in Wildcat, embarking on her very...

A novel full of surprises... It's vintage Paretsky, and hard to put down - The Sunday Times Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, but V.I. Warshawski knows its politics: "Pay to Play". Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects. Private investigator V.I. gets pulled into one...

Sometimes, time doesn't heal all wounds... When a young woman named Sabrina disappears without a trace in Kansas, private investigator V.I. Warshawski knows she must act fast. But when she discovers Sabrina close to death in a drug house, the locals don't take kindly to her—and Sabrina's mother becomes suspicious. V.I. finds herself under the sharp gaze of the FBI—and...

Sometimes, time doesn't heal all wounds... When a young woman named Sabrina disappears without a trace in Kansas, private investigator V.I. Warshawski knows she must act fast. But when she discovers Sabrina close to death in a drug house, the locals don't take kindly to her—and Sabrina's mother becomes suspicious. V.I. finds herself under the sharp gaze of the FBI—and...