Sara Paretsky

Chicago’s legendary detective, V. I. Warshawski, knows her city’s rotten underbelly better than most, but she’s unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use, in this propulsive novel from New York Times best seller Sara Paretsky....

this gripping adventure - the first V.I. Warshawski mystery - America’s top private eye is tossed into a dangerous adventure....

Killing Orders, V.I. Warshawski’s third adventure, starts when her great-aunt Rosa summons the detective to her cold suburban home.....

Chicago's unique brand of ball is 16-inch slow pitch, played in leagues all over the city for more than a century. But in politics, in business, and in law enforcement, the game is hardball....

“Doctors take days off — why not PIs?” V.I. Warshawski demands....

V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to her old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promise is something she always keeps....

V.I. Warshawski returns to Chicago to save a friend’s nephew from a murder arrest. The case involves a stolen artifact that could implicate a shadowy network of international criminals. As V.I. investigates, the detective soon finds herself tangling with the Russian mob and ISIS backers....

Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world....

The brilliant V. I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes....

V. I. tracks her quarry through a university town, across fields where missile silos once flourished - and into a past riven by long-simmering racial tensions....

No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few she'd be happy to avoid. High on that list is tangling with Chicago political bosses....

This is a story of secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations - secrets political, social, sexual, financial: all of them with the power to kill....

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....

What secrets hide behind the razzle-dazzle of the entertainment industry? V.I. Warshawski is about to find out...

Bleeding Kansas is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the 1850s....

When private eye V.I. Warshawski is called out to a derelict drug house in a rural town just south of Chicago, she discovers something....

V. I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it....

Twenty-five years ago, Stella Guzzo beat her daughter to death and then walked up the street to play bingo at her church....

> Deadlock, V. I. Warshawski’s second case, involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry. Once again the subject is murder....

V.I. stops to help a woman lying in the street. Her Good Samaritan act sends her straight into a case that exposes dark hidden truths....