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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.

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...

P.D. JAMES called her "the most remarkable" of today's suspense writers. STIEG LARSSON loved her work so much, he named her in his novels. And now SARA PARETSKY returns with the most extraordinary novel of her legendary career: FALLOUT. Before there was Lisbeth Salander, before there was Stephanie Plum, there was V.I. WARSHAWSKI. To her parents, she's Victoria Iphigenia. To her friends, she's Vic. But to clients seeking her talents as a detective, she's V.I. And her new case will lead her from her native Chicago... and into Kansas, on the trail of a vanished film student and a faded Hollywood star. Accompanied by her dog, 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, a past that holds the key to the crimes of the present. But as the mysteries stack up, so does the body count. And in this, her toughest case, not even V.I. is safe. Exciting and provocative, fiercely intelligent and witty, FALLOUT is reading at its most enjoyable and powerful. "

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.

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.

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.

'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 . . . ?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.