Books by Sara Paretsky

One of the Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Novels and Thrillers Since 1945When V.I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who's been missing for four decades, a search that she thought would be futile turns lethal. Old skeletons from the city's racially charged history rise up to force her back with a vengeance - a nun who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. dies without revealing crucial evidence, and on the city's South Side, people spit when she shows up. The elderly sisters who hired her are also keeping important information to themselves.Then V.I. finds that her family is keeping secrets of their own. A young cousin whom she's never met arrives from Kansas City to work on a political campaign, but disappears under mysterious circumstances. Afraid to learn that her adored father might have been a bent cop, deception and corruption following her at every step, V.I. finds all her certainties under threat, but takes the investigation all the way to its frightening end.

Meeting an anonymous client on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. Especially when the client lies and tells V I Warshawski he s the prominent banker John Thayer, looking for his son s missing girlfriend. But V I soon discovers the real John Thayer s son and he s dead. As V I begins to question her mysterious client s motives, she sinks deeper into Chicago s darker side: a world of gangsters, insurance fraud and contract killings. And while she must concentrate on saving the life of someone she has never met, it becomes clear that she is in danger of losing her own. Newly available 25 years after a stunning debut, Indemnity Only introduces one of the world s best-loved private investigators.

Word count 22,610 Bestseller

Bitter Medicine, V I Warshawski 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. V I assumes this is a tragic but unavoidable outcome. However, when Dr. Tregiere is brutally murdered and V I begins to investigate, her work unleashes a trail of violence that leads her back to the hospital where Consuelo died. The trail of greed and violence the detective uncovers proves to be bitter medicine indeed.

Three million dollars in share certificates have been stolen from a Dominican priory, and VI Warshawski doesn t want to find out why. Aust Rosa, the priory s treasurer, wants her on the case, and VI has never forgiven Rosa for something she did a long time ago. But VI changes her mind and the case changes its course when she visits the priory. Suddenly everyone her aunt, the FBI, and a mysterious phone caller threatening to pour acid on VI s beautiful eyes tells her to let sleeping dogs lie. Then one of VI s dearest friends is murdered With her customary skill and with the help of a few stiff drinks, VI plunges into the affair. She needs all her wit, ingenuity and femininity, as well as her gun-handling and karate-chopping skills.

Deadlock, V I Warshawksi s second case, involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry. 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. Convinced that Boom-Boom was in fact killed because of information he had uncovered about criminal doings on the shipping lines, V I begins a long and frustrating search for her cousin s murderer. In the course of an investigation that takes her to a remote Canadian port city and a calamitous trip on a sabotaged freighter, V I finds all too many possible candidates for the killer, including a grain company executive involved in extortion; and rival heads of two shippers, one of whom is being blackmailed for his criminal past; a hockey player whose specialty is graft; and Boom-Boom s lover, an icily beautiful dancer with expensive tastes in men and merchandise.

V I Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. 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.Through young Josie Dorrado, V I meets the girl's mother, who voices her worries about sabotage in the little flag manufacturing plant where she works. The biggest employer on the South Side, discount-store behemoth By-Smart, pays even less, and Ms. Dorrado doesn't know how she'll support her four children if the flag plant shuts down. The elder Dorrado's fears are realized when the plant explodes; V I is injured and the owner is killed. As V I begins to investigate, she finds herself confronting the Bysen family, who own the By-Smart company. Founder William Buffalo Bill Bysen, now in his eighties, has four sons who quarrel with each other and with him; the oldest, Young Mr. William, is close to sixty and furious that his father doesn't cede more power to him. And then, there's Billy the Kid, Young Mr. William's nineteen-year-old son, whose Christian idealism puts him on a collision course with his father, his grandfather, and the company as a whole. When Billy runs away with Josie Dorrado, V I is squeezed between the needs of two very different families. As she tries to find the errant teenagers, and to track down a particularly cruel murderer, her own life is almost forfeit in the swamps that lie under the city of Chicago.

Om lydbogen KropskontaktAtter er privatdetektiven Victoria I. Warshawski hovedperson i et skæbnedrama i højeste gear. En klassisk Paretsky-krimi med det hele.På en bar i Chicago lader en body artist sin nøgne krop dekorere af gæsterne, som siden kan downloade motiverne fra en hjemmeside.Showet tiltrækker alle slags mennesker - mere eller mindre lyssky. En frygtindgydende ex-politimand maler klodsede tal og koder, og Nadja, en uligevægtig kvinde, maler et symbol og et ansigt, der får Chad, en ung veteran fra Irak-krigen, til at gå bersærk. En aften forlader Nadja showet, før det er slut. V.I., der er tilstede, følger efter hende. Udenfor finder hun hende med to kugler i brystet. Inden Nadja udånder, når V.I. at fange et enkelt ord: “Alley...”Det bliver indledningen til en hæsblæsende og farefuld jagt på morderen, og undervejs afslører V.I. en kæde af hæslige sandheder, der rækker hele vejen fra Irak til Chicagos sydside.Copyright @2010 by Sara Paretsky All rights reservedOversat af Michael Krefeld fra Body Workkrimi, Irakkrigen, USA, Chicago, 2000-2009