Sara Paretsky returned to the scene of the crime. It was early June and traffic in River North on a Saturday morning was slow and quiet. Pet owners, pooches, strollers and the smell of toast. Paretsky ...

Sara Paretsky will be the guest of honor at a Lawrence Public Library Foundation event on Friday. Sara Paretsky has a problem. And it’s becoming V.I. Warshawski’s problem, too. Paretsky says as the ...

The bestselling crime writer on hating femmes fatales, self doubt and creating a female character who refused to be silenced In 2007, Sara Paretsky took time out from her day job as a crime writer to ...

V.I. Warshawski, the private investigator who lives near Wrigley Field in Sara Paretsky’s beloved mystery novels, is a more devoted Cubs fan than the writer who created her. But not by much. Paretsky, ...

Lotty Herschel, V.I. Warshawski’s stand-in maternal figure, needs her friend’s help in MWA Grand Master Paretsky’s riveting 20th novel featuring the intrepid Chicago PI (after 2017’s Fall Out). The ...

Verso, 158 pages, $22.95. Decades before she developed the literary alter ego for which she is best known — the female private investigator V.I. Warshawski — mystery writer Sara Paretsky was already ...

Books have shaped my life in more ways than I can explain. There are some key milestones that will always stand proud of the rest: the moment, reading a Chalet School book, when I understood that ...

The Women's National Book Association of New Orleans presented its third annual Pinckley Prizes for Crime Fiction, named in memory of the late Times-Picayune crime fiction columnist and civic activist ...

The iconic writer’s upcoming crime novel explores how “older women can still come through in a crisis," the author tells PEOPLE Bestselling author Sara Paretsky is back with a new crime fiction novel ...

Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths. By Sarah Weinman Many crime novels are known ...