Will they intersect? Something tells me they will.

Plus there are two cases she's got going on at once. There are so many connections and seedy things happening, you're not sure how to begin figuring it out. Spanning a history of nearly 50 years, the story puts VI in the most scary of situations, and it allows Paretsky to truly tell a tale of remarkable prominence. What a fantastic book! It had everything from murder to corporate espionage to communism. Warshawski' thriller and mystery series, written in 2004 by Sara Paretsky. Her two books that are non-Warshawski novels are : Ghost Country (1998) and Bleeding Kansas (2008).Ĥ out of 5 stars to Blacklist, the 11th book in the 'V.I. 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. finds herself penned in to a smaller and smaller space by an array of people trying to silence her, and before she can untangled the sordid truth, two more people will die-and V.I.’s own life will hang in the balance. to investigate, she is sucked into a Gothic tale of sex, money, and power, leading her back to McCarthy-era blacklists and forward to some of the darker aspects of the Patriot Act. But instead of a mysterious intruder she discovers a dead man in the ornamental pond-a reporter for an African-American publication whom the suburban cops are quick to dismiss as a suicide.

“A genuinely exciting and disturbing thriller.”- Chicago TribuneĪs a favor to her most important client, V.

“A thoughtful, high-tension mystery.”- The Washington Post Book World Warshawski explores secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations in this New York Times bestselling novel from one of the most compelling writers in American crime fiction.

Blacklist by Sara Paretsky