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Sara Paretsky

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Sara Paretsky is a modern American author of detective fiction. Paretsky was raised in Kansas, and graduated from the state university with a degree in political science. She did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in 1968 to work there. She ultimately completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago, entitled The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War, and finally earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Married to a professor of physics at the University of Chicago, she has lived in Chicago since 1968.

The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is V.I. Warshawski, a female private investigator. Warshawski's eclectic personalit ...more

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Park Dwellers

The woman rubbed her sore hip, sore where she’d landed and,sat heavily on a bench. Someone was already there, guarding a shopping cart full of black plastic garbage bags. She grabbed a dirty Gucci purse from one of the bags and clutched it to her breasts.

“You can’t just sit on someone else’s bench without asking first!”

Two men were on a nearby bench, one white, one Black. The white m

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Indemnity Only (V.I. Warsha...
3.90 avg rating — 19,296 ratings — published 1982 — 91 editions
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Blood Shot (V.I. Warshawski...
4.03 avg rating — 10,177 ratings — published 1988 — 62 editions
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Body Work (V.I. Warshawski,...
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Hard Time (V.I. Warshawski,...
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Deadlock (V.I. Warshawski, #2)
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Fire Sale (V.I. Warshawski,...
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“The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.”
― Sara Paretsky, Bleeding Kansas
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“When you're struggling to survive, no one gets to label you a coward, not even you yourself in your private thoughts.”
― Sara Paretsky, Brush Back
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“A god who cares more about a little water on the head than my daughter's character is not a deity I want her to spend eternity with.”
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