

Leave a comment and let me know what you think. And you can find all my social media profiles to get the details on the who/what/when/where and my pictures. First the book review goes on Goodreads, and then I send it on over to my WordPress blog at, where you'll also find TV & Film reviews, the revealing and introspective 365 Daily Challenge and lots of blogging about places I've visited all over the world. About Meįor those new to me or my reviews. It carries over all the things you'll love about a family drama with an air of mystique. For those who like to test their authors in different genres, this is a case of a successful transition. The characters are quite vivid and come from very strong families that very likely existed in this country years ago. She spins quite a tale in this fiction work. I wasn't concerned over whether she'd do well writing a non-mystery, non-serial fiction novel however, I was concerned whether I'd actually like it, but rest assured, there's no reason to be worried.

I enjoyed her realistic slice of the harsh life with hardcore characters and a very strong female protagonist. Sara Paretsky was one of the very first serial mystery fiction authors I began reading after Agatha Christie. Her two books that are non-Warshawski novels are : Ghost Country (1998) and Bleeding Kansas (2008). 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.
