Bøger af Sara Paretsky

"No one, male or female, writes better P.I. books than Paretsky."-The Denver Post V. I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to her old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promise is something she always keeps. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and a problem-after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. But when V.I. starts probing into the past, she stumbles onto some long-buried secrets-and a very new corpse. Now she's stirring up a deadly mix of big business and chemical corruption that may become a toxic shock to a snooper who knows too much. "[Paretsky's] work does more than turn the genre upside down: her books are beautifully paced and plotted, and the dialogue is fresh and smart."-Newsweek "Her best and boldest work to date . . . a criminal investigation that is a genuine heroic quest."-The New York Times Book Review

The twenty-first V.I. Warshawski thriller from one of America's greatest female crime writers.

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 is led by her dogs 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 masterly fashion.

Sara Paretsky follows her instant New York Times bestseller Fallout--her most widely read novel in years--with an extraordinary adventure that pits her acclaimed detective, V.I. Warshawski, against some of today's most powerful figures.

Private eye V.I. Warshawski knows her friend Consuelo's pregnancy is already risky-she's sixteen and diabetic. Despite V.I.'s efforts to provide Consuelo with proper care, both mother and daughter die in the local hospital. Suspecting malpractice, V.I. begins an investigation- and a reluctant romance with an ER doctor. But deadly complications arise when a series of vicious murders and an attack on a women's clinic lead her to suspect a cold-blooded cover-up. And if V.I. isn't careful, she just might have delivered her final case...

A proper hero for these times . . . To us, V.I. is perfect.THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "e;Sara Paretskys gloriously kick-ass private eye, V.I. Vic Warshawski, is back . . . in a political-rot thriller thats the definition of perfection in the genre."e;THE WASHINGTON POSTChicagos legendary detective, V.I. Warshawski, knows her citys rotten underbelly better than most, but shes 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; Zamirs 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. Hes 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. Shes 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 Lydias lovers death. Instead, the detective finds a terrifying conspiracy stretching from Chicagos parks to a cover-up of the dark chapters in Americas 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.

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.

Boom-Boom Warshawski är en av Amerikas framtida stjärnor inom ishockey. Men detta hopp avbryts tvärt av en plötslig skada. För att få tiden att gå, och att slippa tänka på sitt öde, ger han sig in i affärslivets turbulens. När han en dag hittas död, dränkt i hamnens smutsiga vatten, tror hans kusin privatdetektiven VI Warshawski inte ett dugg på den officiella förklaringen att han tagit sitt liv av depression. Det var inte sån han var. Hon börjar nysta i fallet, och det blir snart uppenbart för henne att Boom-Boom var något på spåren, en stor konspiration som har med sjöfartshandeln att göra. Men det blir också klart för henne att någon vill få stopp på hennes snokande ...Sara Paretsky är en amerikansk deckarförfattare. Hennes berättelser brukar vara blodiga, våldsamma och med ett tydligt stråk humor.

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.

V. I. Warshawski är en kvinnlig privatspanare i Chicago. Hon är varken förmögen eller särskilt populär, men hon är bra på det hon gör. När hon en dag får förfrågan att rädda en rik bankmans son från en socialistisk flickvän vill hon till en början tacka nej, men ekonomin tryter. Det som till en början verkade vara ett rutinmässigt uppdrag, visar sig dock snart bli mycket mer invecklat. Sonen hittas snart mördad och flickvännen är spårlöst försvunnen. En mycket invecklad härva av bedrägerier börjar i sinom tid veckla ut sig framför V. I. Warshawski, och hon kan inte göra något annat än att följa sina instinkter ...Sara Paretsky är en amerikansk deckarförfattare. Hennes berättelser brukar vara blodiga, våldsamma och med ett tydligt stråk humor.

Victoria Iphigenia Warshawski är Chicagos tuffaste privatdetektiver. Hon är också ovanligt vacker. Detta ger män idéer. De tror sig kunna göra som de vill med henne. Som tur är har hon en riktigt jävlig karatespark i beredskap för dem. När Victoria en dag måste ge sig tillbaka till sitt gamla hemområde i sydliga Chicago behöver hon konfrontera ett mörkt förflutet som hon helst hade velat glömma. Det var därför jag aldrig åker hit något mer, tänker hon ... Och det finns ett till problem. Ett mord inträffar och liket blir ett uppvaknade för Victoria. Hon är snabbt på fallet, och snart visar det sig att det brutala dådet har en hel del med henne själv att göra ...Sara Paretsky är en amerikansk deckarförfattare. Hennes berättelser brukar vara blodiga, våldsamma och med ett tydligt stråk humor.

V. I. Warshawski, eller Vic, är en excentrisk deckare från Chicago. Ingen bråkar med henne. Och skulle någon få för sig att det är en bra idé, så tar hon till sina karatesparkar. En dag åker hennes förvirrade gamla granne till sjukhuset och lämnar efter sig en hel drös hundar. Av någon anledning får deras yuppiegranne för sig att avlida alla hundarna och Vic bestämmer sig för att skipa lite rättvisa. Men snart visar det sig att de märkliga hundmorden har en märklig koppling till ett annat fall som mer eller mindre landar i Vics knä. Nu är det upp till henne att klara upp denna härva lösa trådar, konspirationer och mördaryuppies på Chicagos mörka gator ...Sara Paretsky är en amerikansk deckarförfattare. Hennes böcker är allt från spännande, blodiga, våldsamma och humoristiska.

LEE CHILD says she's "e;a genius."e;P.D. JAMES called her "e;the most remarkable"e; 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.

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 . . .

The seventeenth V.I. Warshawski thriller from one of America's greatest female crime writers, and winner of Theakstons Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award 2015.For six stormy weeks in high school, V.I. Warshawski thought she was in love with Frank Guzzo. He broke up with her, she went off to college, he started driving trucks for a living. She forgot about him until the day his mother was arrested for bludgeoning his kid sister Annie to death. Twenty-five years later, Stella is released and Frank comes to V. I., begging the private detective to help find grounds to exonerate his mother from a crime she claims she never committed.V.I. doesn't want to get involved, but life has been hard on Frank. When V.I. agrees to ask a few questions, it's a painful journey to the past for her, to her old neighbourhood and the people she grew up with. And when she gets beaten up after attending a youth-group meeting in her old 'hood, V.I.'s main question becomes whether she will live long enough to find the answers.

When private eye V.I. Warshawski is called out to a derelict drug house in a rural town just south of Chicago she discovers something she wasn't expecting: the mutilated corpse of a man dumped in a cornfield.It is a discovery that throws V.I. into the fascinating world of physics and invention: a design which sparked the construction of the computer as we know it the development of nuclear weapons the wonder of Newton's prisms and a train of dramatic events that occurred in war-time Vienna over seventy years ago.With a range of suspects too scared to open up V.I. must delve deep into the past to find clues. Someone holds the answers to her questions - someone who will stop at nothing to prevent the truth from resurfacing . . . Packed with Paretsky's masterfully crafted suspense and offering an illuminating insight into some of the greatest scientific developments of the twentieth century this is set to be V.I.'s most enlightening - and exhilarating - adventure yet.

During a routine stake-out of a major client's former home, V.I. stumbles upon something she didn't expect to find: a body. The police immediately dismiss the victim as a drunken intruder, but V.I. sees things differently. Hired by the dead man's family to investigate, V.I. is lead back to the blacklists of the McCarthy era as well as into the murky operations of modern American government. Stopping at nothing in her quest for justice, V.I. soon discovers the perilous cost of bringing dark secrets to light . . .

When V.I.'s close friend Lotty Herschel is approached by a man claiming to be a fellow Holocaust survivor, she's forced to recall a painful past she's tried desperately to forget. Coming to Lotty's aid, V.I. decides to investigate the mysterious stranger. But her findings lead to the exposure of something much darker involving an international conspiracy reaching all the way back to Nazi Europe - as well as a shocking truth which could potentially devastate her friend . . .

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.

'Grace Notes' sees V.I. delve into her family history after discovering a newfound Italian cousin, Vico. But what does Vico want after all this time? And what danger will it lead to? In 'The Pietro Andromache', V.I.'s friend Lotty Herschel finds herself in hot water when her rival is robbed and killed. Lotty ticks all the right boxes, but who's the real culprit? And in 'Strung Out', V.I. investigates the daughter of an old friend, suspected of murdering her father with a racket string . . .

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.

The eighth novel in the V.I. Warhawski crime series, set in Chicago, from prize-winning author Sara Paretsky. The discovery of a destitute family in her office basement leads V.I. Warshawski to homeless charity Home Free. But the organisation's frosty reception gives V.I. cause for concern, especially when one of its board members is then found murdered, sprawled across her desk . . . Taking on the case, V.I. uncovers a framework of domestic abuse and fraud which spreads across the whole of Chicago, as well as into the abandoned tunnels beneath the city streets - where more dark secrets have been buried . . .

The seventh novel in the V.I. Warhawski crime series, set in Chicago, from prize-winning author Sara Paretsky. V.I. Warshawski's Chicago neighbourhood is prospering. As it's out with the old and in with the new, long-term residents like elderly Hattie Frizell find themselves viciously under threat . . . But that's not all that's troubling V.I. When the body of her neighbour's friend is found washed up in the Sanitary Canal, her investigations lead her to uncover a world of corporate conspiracy and political corruption involving some of Chicago's most prestigious industrial players. And after several attempts on her life, it seems that this time, V.I. may have dug too deep . . .

The sixth novel in the V.I. Warhawski crime series, set in Chicago, from prize-winning author Sara Paretsky. V.I. Warshawski receives an unwelcome shock when her aunt Elena arrives on her doorstep in the middle of the night, having fled from her burning hotel. But things go from bad to worse when Elena mysteriously vanishes and the corpse of her aunt's friend is discovered at a construction site. As V.I.'s investigation plunges her deep into the workings of the construction industry and county politics, she finds herself part of a dangerous game of corruption where her life is the prize. Someone's out to silence her, and they won't stop until they do . . .

The fifth novel in the V.I. Warhawski crime series, set in Chicago, from prize-winning author Sara Paretsky. When V.I. Warshawski is asked to search for the father of a childhood friend, she assumes it'll be a straightforward case. But the return to her old Chicago neighbourhood reignites dark memories from her past - memories she'd sooner forget. As the body of another old friend suddenly turns up, V.I. finds herself embroiled in a dangerous quest for justice which pits her against the bosses of big business and industrial corruption. It's one of her toughest and most personal cases yet, one from which she may not emerge entirely unscathed . . .

'Doctors take days off - why not PIs?' V.I. Warshawski demands. But when the hardest-working of private eyes goes out one night, a stranger is shot and dies in her arms. V.I. has been visiting Club Gouge, Chicago's edgiest night spot, where a woman known as the Body Artist turns her naked body into a canvas for the audience to paint on. The show attracts all kinds of people, from a menacing off-duty cop to Ukrainian mobsters and Iraq war veterans - and V.I.'s impetuous cousin, Petra. A tormented young painter shows up too, and the intricate designs she creates on the Body Artist drive one of the soldiers into a violent rage. When the painter is shot, the police think it's a clear-cut case: a shell-shocked war veteran goes off the rails. But the soldier's family hires V.I. to clear his name, and the detective uncovers a chain of ugly truths that stretches all the way from Iraq to Chicago's South Side.