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When a neighboring eighty-year-old dog owner turns up floating facedown in a canal shortly after an argument with a yuppie couple, V. I. Warshawski begins an investigation.

Sara Paretsky, one of the most legendary crime writers of all time, presents an exclusive and thrilling short story featuring beloved investigator V.I. Warshawski as a ten-year-old girl on her first investigation. V.I. Warshawski developed her strength and sense of justice at a very early age. It’s 1966 and on the south side of Chicago racial tensions are at an all-time high. Dr. Martin Luther King is leading marches at Marquette Park and many in the neighborhood are very angry. With nothing but a bicycle, eighty-two cents in her pocket, and her Brownie camera hanging from her wrist, Victoria sneaks off to Marquette Park alone to protect her father Tony, a police officer who is patrolling the crowds. What begins as a small adventure and a quest to find her father and make sure he is safe turns into something far more dangerous. As the day goes on and the conflict at the park reaches a fever pitch Victoria realizes she must use her courage and ingenuity if she wants to keep herself and her family members out of harm’s way.

Her office building is falling down, the unpaid bills are mounting up. V.I. Warshawski needs a lucrative case and needs it fast.

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.

"Readers can find comfort in the dedication V.I. gives the cries for help she hears from friends, neighbors, and strangers... Very few series authors deliver as masterfully as Sara Paretsky.” — San Francisco Book Review Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a nefarious conspiracy preying on Chicago’s weak and vulnerable, in this thrilling novel from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski’s dogs lead her on a mad chase that ends when they discover a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The girl only regains consciousness long enough to utter one enigmatic word. V.I. helps bring her to a hospital, but not long after, she vanishes before anyone can discover her identity. As V.I. attempts to find her, the detective uncovers an ugly consortium of Chicago powerbrokers and mobsters who are prepared to kill the girl. And now V.I.’s own life is in jeopardy as well. Told against the backdrop of a city emerging from its pandemic lockdown, Overboard lays bare the dark secrets and corruption buried in Chicago’s neighborhoods in a masterly fashion.

A brilliant collection of 26 original stories from the best women crime writers of our times, introduced and edited by Sara Paretsky From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross’s “The Baroness,” to the chilling “Only A woman,” Algerian writer Amel Benaboura’s English-language debut, here are voices known and unknown at home and abroad, as familiar crime turf in America and England is expanded to Russia, Algeria, Austria, Germany, and South America. From Ruth Rendell’s lovelorn secretary to Eleanor Taylor Bland’s Asian-African college professor, the women characters in these tales are girlfriends who collaborate to catch a thief . . . or get away with murder; P.I.s who keep guns in their handbags . . . or their bras; crime victims, homeless, women, or housewives whose ordinary lives take a brutal, sometimes fatal twist. But in each case, a master storyteller has created new, powerful fiction that plumbs the depth and breadth of a woman’s art.

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST “A proper hero for these times . . . To us, V.I. is perfect.” — THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Sara Paretsky’s gloriously kick-ass private eye, V.I. “Vic” Warshawski, is back . . . in a political-rot thriller that’s the definition of perfection in the genre." — THE WASHINGTON POST Chicago’s legendary detective, V.I. Warshawski, knows her city’s rotten underbelly better than most, but she’s unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use, in this propulsive novel from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky. Chicago may be the city of broad shoulders, but its political law is “Pay to Play.” Money changes hands in the middle of the night, and by morning, buildings and parks are replaced by billion-dollar projects. Chicago PI V.I. Warshawski gets pulled into one of these clandestine deals through her impetuous goddaughter, Bernie Fouchard. Bernie tries to rescue Lydia Zamir, a famed singer-songwriter now living on the streets; Zamir’s life fell apart when her lover was murdered next to her in a mass shooting at an outdoor concert. Not only does Bernie plunge her and V.I. headlong into the path of some ruthless developers, they lead to the murder of the young man Bernie is dating. He’s a computer geek working for a community group called SLICK. V.I. is desperate to find a mysterious man named Coop, who roams the lakefront in the middle of the night with his dog. She’s sure he holds the key to the mounting body count within SLICK. Coop may even know why an international law firm is representing the mass murderer responsible for Lydia’s lover’s death. Instead, the detective finds a terrifying conspiracy stretching from Chicago’s parks to a cover-up of the dark chapters in America’s meddling in South American politics. Before she finds answers, this electrifying novel pushes V.I. close to the breaking point: People who pay to play take no prisoners.

Crime writer Sara Paretsky is known the world over for her acclaimed series of mysteries starring Chicago private investigator V. I. Warshawski, now in its seventeenth installment. Paretsky’s work has long been inflected with history—for her characters the past looms large in the present—and in her decades-long career, she has been recognized for transforming the role of women in contemporary crime fiction. What’s less well-known is that before Paretsky began her writing career, she earned a PhD in history from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on moral philosophy and religion in New England in the early and mid-nineteenth century. Now, for the first time, fans of Paretsky can read that earliest work, Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing. Paretsky here analyzes attempts by theologians at Andover Seminary, near Boston, to square and secure Calvinist religious beliefs with emerging knowledge from history and the sciences. She carefully shows how the open-minded scholasticism of these theologians paradoxically led to the weakening of their intellectual credibility as conventional religious belief structures became discredited, and how this failure then incited reactionary forces within Calvinism. That conflict between science and religion in the American past is of interest on its face, but it also sheds light on contemporary intellectual battles. Rounding out the book, leading religious scholar Amanda Porterfield provides an afterword discussing where Paretsky’s work fits into the contemporary study of religion. And in a sobering—sometimes shocking—preface, Paretsky paints a picture of what it was like to be a female graduate student at the University of Chicago in the 1970s. A treat for Paretsky’s many fans, this book offers a glimpse of the development of the mind behind the mysteries.

Sometimes, time doesn't heal all wounds... When a young woman named Sabrina disappears without a trace in Kansas, private investigator V.I. Warshawski knows she must act fast. But when she discovers Sabrina close to death in a drug house, the locals don't take kindly to her - and Sabrina's mother becomes suspicious. V.I. finds herself under the sharp gaze of the FBI - and the men running the county's opioid distribution. And when a dead body surfaces a few days later, V.I. is pitched headlong into a battle between the locals - with roots that date all the way back to the American Civil War. The war might be over, but its legacy remains - and V.I.'s survival depends on keeping one step ahead in a game she doesn't even know she's playing...

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.

Blacklist is a story of secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations, but with particular resonance for today.

Der Sommer geht zur Neige. Im ländlichen Illinois stehen schwere Missernten bevor, in der Großstadt Chicago geht die soziale Schere immer weiter auseinander. Die panische Nachricht einer haltlosen Frau auf Dr. Herschels Anrufbeantworter führt Privatdetektivin Vic Warshawski nach Palfry County. Doch statt der erwarteten Landkommune findet sie dort nur noch eine verlassene Methküche vor und einen toten Hund. Zurück in Chicago ist Warshawski zwar auf vertrautem Terrain, aber ihre Vermisstensuche weitet sich aus zu einer Odyssee durch Zeit und Raum, und die Gegenseite hat fast unbegrenzte Ressourcen. Großmeisterin Sara Paretsky demonstriert die gewaltige Erzählkraft der Kriminalliteratur in diesem elegant geplotteten Hardboiled-Roman mit Privatdetektivin Vic Warshawski, die hier einmal mehr an ihre Grenzen gerät. »Beide, Warshawski und Paretsky, sind bei Kritische Masse in absoluter Höchstform. Mit dem Scharfblick einer guten Reporterin und der visionären Kraft einer Künstlerin setzt Sara Paretsky Orte ins Bild und leuchtet Strukturen aus.« Washington Post »Paretsky erzählt hier mit dieser schwindelerregenden, diamantharten Klarheit, die einem von Seite zu Seite unverhofft das Herz brechen kann.« Chicago Tribune

Heksejagt er den 11. bog om V.I. Warshawski. I kølvandet på 11. september påtager V.I. Warshawski sig en opgave for en tidligere klient. Hun skal overvåge et gammelt familielandsted, der står tomt, men en nat overrasker hun en ubuden gæst og styrter i guldfiskebassinet. Da hun griber ud efter noget at holde fast i, lukker hendes fingre sig om en iskold hånd. Et lig er dukket op til overfladen. Opdagelsen hvirvler V.I. ind i to store Chicago-familiers historier, hvor der tegner sig et kompliceret spil om blod, sex, penge, skandaler – og mord. Samtidig bliver hun involveret i en sag om en savnet ægyptisk dreng, der muligvis har forbindelser til et terrornetværk. Heksejagt er en krimi om flere generationers forræderi og hemmeligheder – politiske, seksuelle og økonomiske. Hver især potentielle dræbere.

Op weg naar huis na een surveillanceklus die de hele nacht duurde, stopt V.I. Warshawski om haar honden uit te laten. Als die er plotseling vandoor gaan en Vic hen probeert bij te houden, leiden ze haar naar een zwaargewonde tiener die zich verstopt tussen de rotsen langs Lake Michigan. Het meisje komt heel even bij bewustzijn en fluistert ‘Nagyi?’ V.I. probeert haar gerust te stellen en trommelt hulptroepen op. Niet lang daarna verdwijnt ze uit het ziekenhuis voordat iemand haar identiteit kan ontdekken. Terwijl V.I. haar probeert te vinden, ontdekt de detective een consortium van machthebbers en gangsters uit Chicago die bereid zijn de tiener te vermoorden. En nu is V.I.’s eigen leven ook in gevaar. Verdwenen wordt verteld tegen de achtergrond van een stad die uit haar pandemische lockdown komt en legt op meesterlijke wijze de duistere geheimen en corruptie in de buurten van Chicago bloot. ‘Ontspan en geniet van een geweldig uitgedacht plot.’ – New York Journal of Books ‘Een duizelingwekkend plot, meedogenloos tempo, een sterk pleidooi voor sociale rechtvaardigheid en geloofwaardige personages. De lezers krijgen waar voor hun geld!’ – Publishers Weekly

Privatdetektiven V.I. Warshawski tar motvilligt sig an uppgiften att träna tjejernas basketlag i sin fattiga hemstad. Inte nog med alla sociala problem som klubben behöver dras med, pengarna tryter. V.I. försöker skaffa en sponsor, och får tillfälligt gensvar från en lokal affärsmagnat Buffalo Bill Byson. Men det visar sig snart att han är mer intresserad av att slå mynt av reklamintäkter. Bills idealistiske sonson Billy visar dock gehör för hennes idéer. När Billy försvinner under mystiska omständigheter anlitas V.I. av hans familj för att hitta honom, men det går snart upp för V.I. att fallet är betydligt mer invecklat än vad hon tidigare kunnat föreställa sig. En mamma till en av flickorna i laget råkar nämligen på samma gång ut för en rad sabotage riktade mot fabriken hon arbetar på. Allt verkar på sätt och vis sammankopplat, men hur? Och hur ligger det egentligen till med arbetarnas rättigheter på Bysons lågprisvaruhus By-Smart? Detta är en hårdkokt och politiskt medveten thriller från en av genrens mästare! Sara Paretsky är en amerikansk deckarförfattare. Hennes berättelser brukar vara blodiga, våldsamma och med ett tydligt stråk humor.

Contains three novels with private eye V.I. Warshawski. In Indemnity Only a client's son dies and Warshawski's services are no longer needed, in Deadlock V.I.'s investigations into her cousin's death spark off more murder and in Killing Orders V.I. needs her skills to get to the truth.

Warshawski's 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 Kitty's daughter finds her life is in danger, she calls Lotty, who, in turn, summons V.I. to help. The daughter's 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.

En morgen kommer tante Elena til Vics d©ırtrin for bede om husly. Da tante Elenas hotel er br©Œndt ned, accepterer Vic et kortvarigt ophold, og imens fors©ıger hun at finde et sted til tanten ved hj©Œlp af sine politiske kontakter. Da Vic bliver hyret til at opklare de mystiske omst©Œndigheder omkring hotelbranden, dukker liget af tantens unge ven op - og pludselig er tante Elena intet sted at finde. Indtil flere h©ıjtstående politikere advarer Vic mod at grave dybere i sagen, og da uvisse gerningsm©Œnd tre gange på frygtindgydende vis fors©ıger at komme Vic til livs, begynder hun at betvivle hvem, der egentlig vil af med hende. En gennemkorrupt forbindelse mellem byggebranchen, boligspekulanter and Chicagos politiske beslutningstagere leder Vic mod en konfrontation, hvor hun ikke kan vide sig sikker på, hvem der er venner, og hvem der er fjender. Sara Paretsky, f©ıdt 8. juni 1947 i Iowa, USA, er en amerikansk forfatterinde. Hun krediteres ofte for at have v©Œret den f©ırste til at omdanne kvindens rolle og image i krimigenren. "Det er umuligt ikke at blive grebet..." - Henrik List, Berlingske Tidende "En stor del af charmen ved Paretskys b©ıger hinr©ırer fra den autentiske Chicago-atmosf©Œre. Og så fra aktualiteten." - Bo Green Jensen, Weekendavisen Lindhardt og Ringhof genudgiver den anmelderroste og af krimifans h©ıjtskattede serie om privatdetektiven V.I. Warshawski, bedre kendt som Vic. Serien foregår i 80'erne og 90'ernes Chicago, hvor Vic gang på gang vikles ind i gådefulde mysterier.