SARA PARETSKY

Victoria Warshawski es una investigadora privada que procede de los barrios del sur de Chicago, donde la inmigración, las drogas, los embarazos adolescentes y el absentismo escolar son una constante. Aquejada de cancer, la entrenadora de baloncesto del instituto donde ella estudio le pide que asuma el control del equipo femenino, y Warshawski no puede negarse. El equipo esta compuesto por adolescentes de minorias raciales, algunas de ellas con hijos, y todas procedentes de familias humildes. La mayoria de los padres de las chicas trabaja en By-Smart, una cadena de hipermercados que explota y discrimina a sus empleados.

'If Philippa Penhow hadn't gone to Bleeding Heart Square on that January day, you and perhaps everyone else might have lived happily ever after . . . ' It's 1934, and the decaying North London cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square is an unlikely place of refuge for aristocratic Lydia Langstone. But as she flees her abusive marriage there is only one person she can turn to - the genteelly derelict Captain Ingleby-Lewis, currently lodging at no.7. However, unbeknown to Lydia, a dark mystery haunts 7 Bleeding Heart Square. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the lodging house and who vanished four years earlier? Why is a seedy plain-clothes policeman obsessively watching the square? What is making struggling journalist Rory Wentwood so desperate to contact Miss Penhow? And why are parcels smelling of rotting meat being sent to Joseph Serridge, the last person to see Miss Penhow alive . . . ?

Golpe de sangre es una novela en la más pura tradición del género policíaco, pero también una profunda mirada sobre la corrupción, el escándalo político y los dramas de la familia. Victoria Warshawski, universitaria y radical, divorciada y treintañera, hija de un policia de origen polaco y de una emigrante italiana que quiso ser cantante de opera, es ya uno de los personajes mas fascinantes de la novela negra.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of bestselling US author Sarah Paretsky''s Killing Orders, starring Kathleen Turner as a feisty Chicago private eye VI Warshawski. Three million dollars in share certificates have been stolen from a Dominican priory and Vic Warshawski doesn''t want to find out why. Aunt Rosa, the priory''s treasurer, wants her on the case but Vic has never forgiven Rosa for something she did a long time ago.

The enigmatic performer known as the Body Artist takes the stage at Chicago's Club Gouge and allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for their impromptu illustrations. V. I. Warshawski watches as people step forward, some meek, some bold, to make their mark. The evening takes a strange turn when one woman's sketch triggers a violent outburst from a man at a nearby table. Quickly subdued, the man-an Iraqi war vet-leaves the club. Days later, the woman is shot outside the club. Sara Paretsky is a New York Times bestselling author.

Chicagos unique brand of ball is sixteen-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. Sara Paretsky is the author of thirteen previous books, including eleven V. I. Warshawski novels. She is the winner of many awards, including the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers' Association.

When 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.

V.I. Warshawski's impossible god-daughter Bernie convinces her to look for August, a young film-maker who has disappeared. The evidence indicates that he has gone to Kansas in the company of Emerald, an older black movie actress who wants to film the story of her life. Her search takes V.I. from the military base Emerald was born on, to the farm where she grew up outside a university town, ploughing up past and present-day secrets as she goes. What is happening at the former nuclear missile site next door to the farm? What happened at the site in 1983, when students tried to stage their own version of Greenham Common? Everywhere V.I. turns she seems to be finding more trouble - with not a sign of August and Emerald. And then trouble turns to death...

A "Washington Post "Best Mystery of 2015 V.I. Warshawski finds herself in a dangerous web of politics in the latest mystery from the "New York Times "bestselling author of "Critical Mass." No one would accuse V.I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but she d happily avoid tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet that s what she ends up doing when she responds to a plea for help from an old high school fling, Frank Guzzo. Frank s mother Stella was convicted of killing his kid sister, but now that she s out of prison, she s looking for exoneration. Even though the Warshawskis and Stella never got along, V.I. agrees to make a few inquiries after she sees how hard life has been on Frank and her other childhood friends. Only, that small favor leads her straight into the vipers nest of Illinois politics and soon her main question isn t about Stella s case but whether or not she ll make it out of this investigation alive... Includes a Bonus Short Story! "

Varios hoteles se incendian en el Chicago de las muchas razas e infinitas tramas. Nadie sabe por qué. ¿Algo huele a corrupción? Victoria Warshawski, la elegante, dura y original detective protagonista de las novelas de Sara Paretsky, jamás rehúye una causa noble, sobre todo si se trata de evitar la explotación de cualquier minoría étnica y de esa gran mayoría marginada que constituyen las mujeres.

Chicago’s unique brand of ball is sixteen-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.

The stunning first novel in the V.I. Warshawski series, introducing one of the worlds best-loved private investigators.

The second novel in the acclaimed V.I. Warshawski series from one of Americas greatest female crime writers.

The feisty, tough and shrewd heroine appears in her fourth adventure in the V.I. Warshawski series, from one of Americas greatest female crime writers.

The fourteenth V.I. Warshawski novel from a crime author who writes with unbeatable pace and a passion for justice.