Snappy dialogue, tight plotting and realistic situations make Paretsky's unapologetically politicised thrillers a pleasure to read, whatever your viewpoint. It's hard not to get caught up in her passion.

Warshawski, Sara Paretsky did more than anyone to change the face of contemporary women's fiction. she doesn't flinch from examining old social injustices others might find too shameful (and too painful) to dig up - New York Times

The thing about Sara Paretsky is, she's tough. Defiant, sardonic, ostentatious, she stirs every hornet's nest and breasts the murkiest currents to emerge vindicated and triumphant in the end. Paretsky and her stubborn sleuth make a very strong comeback in HARD TIME - The Times Its action sequences are stunning - Daily Mail Warshawski is getting richer and more complex with every book. ”You’ll feel handcuffed to this book until you’ve finished-probably at 3 a.m.HARD TIME is a compulsive read, revealing its author at her most passionate and most page-turning - Express on Sunday finds is a web of conspiracy-and explosive secrets hidden in the darkest places of all. unravels the mystery of a battered and discarded woman, she moves through circles of the rich and the troubled, into the bitter home of a powerful Chicago family, into the pampered world of a TV star, and behind the razor wire of a women’s prison. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky revisits the gritty urban landscape she illuminates with brilliant compassion and vivid color. In Hard Time, which heralds the triumphant return of the much-loved heroine V.I. Warshawski got out of her car to look at the woman she almost hit, she began a long, harrowing descent into a world of shadowy secrets and tangled lives-and into the darkest heart of her city. The other was lying in the road, dying an agonizing death. One was behind the wheel of a Trans Am she liked to drive too fast. In an instant, the lives of two women collided. This book her best.”- The New York Times Book Review “When it comes to creating character, evoking place, and writing crackling and convincing dialogue, Sara Paretsky has no peer-and Hard Time proves it once again.”- Chicago Tribune.Warshawski #16) (Abridged / Compact Disc):īrush Back (V. Warshawski #15) (Abridged / Compact Disc):Ĭritical Mass (V. Warshawski #14) (Abridged / Compact Disc):īreakdown (V.

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Hard Time by Sara Paretsky