Sara Paretsky je moderná americká autorka detektívnej fikcie, ktorá zásadne premenila úlohu a obraz žien v kriminálnom románe. Jej tvorba sa sústredí na postavu V.I. Warshawski, súkromnej vyšetrovateľky, ktorej komplexná osobnosť vzdoruje ľahkému zaradeniu. Warshawski je stelesnením sily a nezávislosti, pričom sa pohybuje na hranici medzi drsným svetom zločinu a osobným životom. Paretsky vo svojich dielach často skúma spoločenské otázky a morálne dilemy prostredníctvom napínavých príbehov, ktoré čitateľa vtiahnu do sveta plného intríg a nečakaných zvratov.
Viki Warshavská, hrdinka detektívneho románu je mladá súkromná vyšetrovateľka. Je nezávislá rozvedená právnička. Raz v noci ju vytrhne zo spánku zvonček pri dverách. Na prahu stojí jej teta, čierna ovca rodiny. Penzión, v ktorom bývala, vyhorel. Ráno újde a Viky ju začne hľadať, kým sama takmer nepríde o život...
In this novel, Vic Warshawski, heroine of Indemnity Only, Deadlock and Killing Orders, investigates Chicago's private hospital system. Through her friend Lotty Herschel, a top obstetrician who runs a clinic in a poor neighbourhood, Vic takes an interest in Consuela, 16 years old and pregnant.
An anthology of crime stories authored by members of the Sisters in Crime Los Angeles chapter. Introduction by Sara Paretsky.
Private Eye V.I. Warshawski is roused one morning by an SOS from a woman on a farm south of Chicago. When V.I. gets there, she finds no woman - but a dead man in a cornfield, his body savagely mutilated. V.I. is happy to leave the case to the local sheriff: it looks like a falling out among meth dealers. But back in Chicago, she learns that the missing woman is a protegee of her oldest friend and confidante, Dr Lotty Herschel, and is compelled to investigate. What V.I. uncovers pulls her into a world of nuclear secrets and high-stakes computing, with roots reaching back to the Second World War. The detective soon finds herself in a hall of mirrors where she can't tell reality from video games, and her life is on the line. For V.I., this is her most profound, and terrifying, adventure yet ...
Vic Warshawski agrees to investigate the paternity of Caroline Djiak, whose mother, Louisa, is dying. Following some leads, Vic visits Louisa's old workplace, the Xerxes Chemical Plant. What she finds is corruption and cruelty on a horrifying scale, where profit has more value than human life.
The edge-of-seat new crime novel featuring America's toughest and most caring private eye, V.I. Warshawski.
Kriminalroman om privatdetektiven Vic Warshawski i Chicago, som denne gang sættes på sporet af en usædvanlig led sag blandt film- og mediefolk, da hun finder en lille filippinsk rengøringspige ilde tilredt
Coaching the basketball team at her former South Chicago high school, V.I. Warshawski investigates sabotage at the site of the area's largest employer, where an explosion has killed the facility's owner and launched a dangerous family rivalry.
In Writing in an Age of Silence , Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work, against the unparalleled repression of free speech and thought in the USA today.In tracing the writer’s difficult journey from silence to speech, Paretsky turns to her childhood youth in rural Kansas, and brilliantly evokes Chicago—the city with which she has become indelibly associated—from her arrival during the civil-rights struggle in the mid-1960s to her most extraordinary literary creation, the south-side detective V I Warshawski. Paretsky traces the emergence of V I Warshawski from the shadows of the loner detectives that stalk the mean streets of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler’s novels, and in the process explores American individualism, the failure of the American dream and the resulting dystopia.Both memoir and meditation, Writing in an Age of Silence is a beautiful, compelling exploration of the writer’s art and daunting responsibility in the face of the assault on US civil liberties post-9/11.
While driving home after celebrating friend Murray Ryerson's big break into TV hosting, V.I. almost collides with a fatally wounded woman lying in the street. The deceased is Nicola Aguinaldo, former employee of security giant B.B. Baladine and recent prison runaway. Taking on the case, V.I. finds herself plunged into a sinister network of corruption that pits her against the police, the prison and the entertainment industry - with potentially lethal results.