Warshawski is a private investigator in Chicago, Illinois. Her two books that are non-Warshawski novels are : Ghost Country (1998) and Bleeding Kansas (2008).Ĥ stars for a hard edged story of high level corruption at a private prison. The Winter 2007 issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection is devoted to her work. Paretsky is credited with transforming the role and image of women in the crime novel. She drinks Johnnie Walker Black Label, breaks into houses looking for clues, and can hold her own in a street fight, but also she pays attention to her clothes, sings opera along with the radio, and enjoys her sex life. Warshawski's eclectic personality defies easy categorization.

Warshawski, a female private investigator. The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is V.I. Married to a professor of physics at the University of Chicago, she has lived in Chicago since 1968. 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. She did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in 1968 to work there. Paretsky was raised in Kansas, and graduated from the state university with a degree in political science.

Sara Paretsky is a modern American author of detective fiction. will be ahead of the game if she gets out alive. In a case that forces her to go head-to-head with one of the world's largest providers of private security and prison services, a case that exposes dark hidden truths behind the razzle-dazzle of the entertainment industry, V.I. soon learns that her Good Samaritan act will drop her squarely in a boiling intrigue. almost runs over a woman lying in the street. On her way home from a party celebrating Murray's debut, V.I. Reporter Murray Ryerson, V.I.'s longtime friend and sometime rival, manages to reinvent himself as the host of a television show on Global's network.

Multimedia conglomerate Global Entertainment has purchased the Chicago Herald-Star, forcing the paper's staff to scramble to stay employed. Hard Time is the work of a master-a riveting novel of suspense that is indisputably Paretsky's best V.I. Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full-length appearance since 1994's Tunnel Vision. Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky's incomparable character V.

Hard Time by Sara Paretsky