SARA PARETSKY

"New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretskys brilliant protagonist 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. Warshawskis closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel, who lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Lotty escaped to London in 1939 on the Kindertransport with a childhood playmate, Kitty Saginor Binder. When Kittys daughter finds her life is in danger, she calls Lotty, who, in turn, summons V.I. to help. The daughters troubles turn out to be just the tip of an iceberg of lies, secrets, and silence, whose origins go back to the mad competition among America, Germany, Japan and England to develop the first atomic bomb. The secrets are old, but the people who continue to guard them today will not let go of them without a fight."

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...

Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world. When tweens in Chicago's Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. The girls include daughters of some of Chicago's most powerful families: The grandfather of one, Chaim Salanter, is one of the world's wealthiest men; the mother of another, Sophy Durango, is the Illinois Democratic candidate for Senate. For V. I. Warshawski, the questions multiply faster than the answers. Is the killing linked to a hostile media campaign against Sophy Durango? Or to Chaim Salanter's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania? As V.I. struggles for answers, she finds herself fighting enemies who are all too human.

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.

Tras los atentados del 11 de septiembre, la detective V. I. Warshawski acepta un extraño encargo de uno de sus clientes más importantes: debe vigilar la antigua mansión de su madre, pues la anciana esta segura de ver luces en ella. En medio de la noche, la investigadora encuentra en los jardines de la casa el cadaver de un periodista negro. Al ver que la policia esta mas que dispuesta a dar carpetazo al asunto, la familia del difunto contrata sus servicios para que les ayude a limpiar su buen nombre. La detective se ira enredando en una telaraña hecha de lujuria, dinero, secretos ocultos y poder que se remonta a la epoca de la caza de brujas del senador McCarthy y las tristemente famosas listas negras. No solo encantara a los entusiastas de la novela negra; tambien quienes se acerquen por primera vez a este genero se veran gratamente sorprendidos y conquistados. The Times Literary Supplement

Murder of a stranger or a relative, in a quiet English town or a crowded American city. It happens everywhere for all kinds of reasons. Short stories by some of the finest modern crime writers.

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.

La detective Victoria Warshawski, mujer independiente, solitaria, aparentemente dura e incapaz de ordenar su vida doméstica y sentimental, vuelve a hacerse cargo de la causa de los desheredados encarnada en dos de sus vecinos: una anciana que vive sola con sus perros y cuya presencia incomoda a los nuevos residentes del barrio y el entrañable señor Contreras, que le pide su ayuda para localizar a un antiguo compañero de trabajo desaparecido cuando hacia averiguaciones sobre las condiciones de jubilacion de la empresa en la que ambos trabajaban. En esta doble actividad, Warshawski se asomara a la problematica de los ancianos en una sociedad despiadada que no duda en aprovecharse de sus miembros mas desfavorecidos.

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.

La investigadora privada V. I. Warshawski, experta en karate y tiradora mortal, es contratada por el vicepresidente de uno de los bancos más importantes de Chicago para que encuentre a la novia de su hijo Peter, misteriosamente desaparecida. Cuando le piden que abandone la investigacion, la detective se niega y halla una pista que la convierte en la principal enemiga de una peligrosa organizacion integrada por asesinos a sueldo y pistoleros sin escrupulos. Valor seguro es un thriller habil y refrescante, una inteligente combinacion de humor acido y suspense. Sara Paretsky, una de las escritoras de best-sellers de mayor exito de Estados Unidos, consigue atrapar al lector con un estilo agil y eficaz y una protagonista sencillamente irresistible.