A collection of 21 crime stories by women writers, including Sara Paretsky, Amanda Cross, Liza Cody and Gillian Slovo. The stories include old favourites such as V.I. Warshawski, Jemima Shore and Kate Fansler.
Dagger AwardsEager for physical action in the spirit-numbing wake of 9/11, VI Warshawski is glad to take on a routine stake-out for her most important client, Darraugh Graham. His ninety-one year-old mother has sold the family estate, but Geraldine Graham keeps a fretful eye on it from her retirement apartment across the road. When Geraldine sees lights there in the middle of the night, Darraugh sends V I out to investigate-and the detective finds a dead journalist in the ornamental pond. The man is an African-American; when the suburban cops seem to be treating him as a criminal ...
Returning to her South Side alma mater for a reunion, private detective V.I. Warshawski becomes involved in the search for a former classmate's long-lost father, a quest that uncovers a web of corruption, danger, and murder.
The enigmatic performer known as the Body Artist takes the stage at Chicago's Club Gouge and allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for their impromptu illustrations. V. I. Warshawski watches as people step forward, some meek, some bold, to make their mark. The evening takes a strange turn when one woman's sketch triggers a violent outburst from a man at a nearby table. Quickly subdued, the man – an Iraqi war vet – leaves the club. Days later, the woman is shot outside the club. She dies in V.I.'s arms, and the police move quickly to arrest the angry vet. A shooting in Chicago is nothing new, certainly not to V.I., who is hired by the vet's family to clear his name. As V.I. seeks answers, her investigation will take her from the North Side of Chicago to the far reaches of the Gulf War.
When her seedy and importunate Aunt Elena turns up on her doorstep at midnight having been burned out of her old people's home, V.I. Warshawski is exasperated rather than curious. Her interest is aroused however, when an old friend, now a politician, puts pressure on her to investigate.
When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye cousin, the intrepid V.I. Warshawski, questions the accidental death report and rumors of suicide. Armed with a bottle of Black Label and a Smith Wesson, V.I. follows a trail of violence and corruption to the center of the Windy City's powerful shipping industry. Dodging attempts on her life with characteristic grit and humor, V.I. wends her way through a maze of grain elevators and thousand-ton freighters, ruthless businessmen, and gorgeous ballerinas, to ferret out Boom Boom's killers before they take her out of the picture – permanently.
The astonishing new V. I. Warshawski novel from one of America 's foremost writers of crime fiction.V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes.Through young Josie Dorrado, V.I. meets the girl's mother, who voices her worries about sabotage in the little flag manufacturing plant where ...
Victoria Warshawski es una investigadora privada que procede de los barrios del sur de Chicago, donde la inmigraci?n, las drogas, los embarazos adolescentes y el absentismo escolar son una constante. Aquejada de c?ncer, la entrenadora de baloncesto del instituto donde ella estudi? le pide que asuma el control del equipo femenino, y Warshawski no puede negarse.El equipo est? compuesto por adolescentes de minor?as raciales, algunas de ellas con hijos, y todas procedentes de familias humildes. La mayor?a de los padres de las chicas trabaja en By-Smart, una cadena de hipermercados que explota y discrimina a sus empleados.
Victoria Warshawski debe averiguar qui?n es el padre de su amiga Caroline. Pero nadie quiere o?r hablar de ello y su investigaci?n choca con un extra?o miedo al pasado en una truculenta historia de crimen y seducci?n familiar.Golpe de sangre es una novela en la m?s pura tradici?n del g?nero polic?aco, pero tambi?n, como siempre en su autora, una profunda mirada sobre la corrupci?n, el esc?ndalo pol?tico y los dramas de familia.Victoria Warshawski, universitaria y radical, divorciada y treintea?era, hija de un polic?a de origen polaco y de una emigrante italiana que quiso ser cantante de ?pera, es ya uno de los personajes m?s fascinantes de la novela negra.
When VI Warshawski returns to her Chicago office after a client visit at Stateville, the last thing she expects is exactly what she finds. Her once tidy work space looks as though a hurricane tore through it. Ripped documents, upended drawers, and even pictures from the wall have been strewn about. But the most chilling find is a bracelet belonging to Warshawki's adored cousin Petra. A video surveillance camera reveals that three persons entered the premises – but where is Petra? The cops spring into action, calling it a possible kidnapping, possible assault, and possible aggravated burglary. Has Warshawski's connection to a group known as the Anacondas put those she loves in danger?
The vice-president of a Chicago bank hires V.I. Warshawski to find his son. She's pleased. The head of the International Brotherhood of Knifegrinders hires her to find his daughter. She's not so pleased. Who's the boss in this dangerous game of insurance fraud, murder contracts and gunmen?
Decimotercera novela de la serie de la comprometida investigadora privada Vic Warshawski. En esta ocasi?n, se involucra en un caso enraizado en los a?os sesenta, en plena efervescencia de la lucha por los derechos de la comunidad afroamericana Durante los disturbios raciales de 1967, cuando los blancos reaccionaron con dureza ante los planes de integraci?n en los barrios, Lamont Gadsden desapareci? sin dejar rastro. A?os despu?s, su anciana madre le encomienda el caso a Vic Warshawski. La detective se enfrentar? a un periodo desagradable de la historia de su ciudad, en el que una marcha pac?fica de Martin Luther King se sald? con la muerte de una joven negra, y lo que ella consideraba un caso cerrado e imposible se convierte en algo mortalmente peligroso.Viejas cuestiones de la historia racial de Chicago y secretos familiares ?suyos propios y del desaparecido? saldr?n a la luz de manera sorprendente.
When Detective V.I. Warshawski begins an investigation of a three million dollar theft from a monastery, acid is thrown in her face, and she suspects she might be taking on the Vatican, the Mafia, and an international conglomerate.
Una historia de secretos y mentiras que atraviesa cuatro generaciones.Tras los atentados del 11 de septiembre, la detective V.I. Warshawski acepta un extra?o encargo de uno de sus clientes m?s importantes: debe vigilar la antigua mansi?n de su madre, pues la anciana est? segura de ver luces en ella.En medio de la noche, la investigadora encuentra en los jardines de la casa el cad?ver de un periodista negro. Al ver que la polic?a est? m?s que dispuesta a dar carpetazo al asunto, la familia del difunto contrata los servicios ...
Varios hoteles se incendian en el Chicago de las muchas razas e infinitas tramas. Nadie sabe por qu?. ?Algo huele a corrupci?n? Victoria Warshawski, la elegante, dura y original detective protagonista de las novelas de Sara Paretsky, jam?s reh?ye una causa noble, sobre todo si se trata de evitar la explotaci?n de cualquier minor?a ?tnica y de esa gran mayor?a marginada que constituyen las mujeres.
V. I. Warshawski, detective privado, intenta resolver una serie de asesinatos que comienzan con la extra?a muerte de su amiga Consuelo y su beb? en una lujosa cl?nica, ?Hubo negligencia? ?Qui?n mat? al joven m?dico negro que la atend?a? Al mismo tiempo tiene que luchar con los problemas dom?sticos habituales: la dieta desordenada, los efectos del fanatismo religioso o la dura vida de Chicago.
La detective Victoria Warshawski, mujer independiente, solitaria, aparentemente dura e incapaz de ordenar su vida dom?stica y sentimental, vuelve a hacerse cargo de la causa de los desheredados encarnada en dos de sus vecinos: una anciana que vive sola con sus perros y cuya presencia incomoda a los nuevos residentes del barrio y el entra?able se?or Contreras, que le pide su ayuda para localizar a un antiguo compa?ero de trabajo desaparecido cuando hac?a averiguaciones sobre las condiciones de jubilaci?n de la empresa en la que ambos trabajaban.
El jugador de los halcones Negros de Chicago, Boom Boom Warshawski, fue una leyenda del hockey. M?s de mil personas asisten a su funeral, consternados al enterarse de que ha resbalado en un muelle y se ha ahogado. La polic?a se apresura a declarar que ha sido un accidente. Y no les gusta la idea de que V.I. Warshawski, meta su nariz femenina en un caso tan evidente. Pero entre atentados contra su propia vida y tragos de scotch, la intr?pida e ingeniosa detective, se abre camino a trav?s de un mundo de silos de cereal y cargueros de mil toneladas. Se introducir? en una senda que le har? descubrir si se est? tomando las cosas de un modo demasiado personal o si su adorado Boom Boom fue en realidad asesinado…
Para la detective privada V. I. Warshawski, «Vic», esta nueva aventura comienza durante una conferencia en Chicago, donde manifestantes furiosos est?n reclamando la devoluci?n de los bienes que les arrebataron en tiempos de la Alemania nazi. De repente, un hombre perturbado se levanta para narrar la historia de su infancia, desgarrada por el Holocausto… Un relato que tendr? consecuencias devastadoras para Lotty Herschel, la ?ntima amiga y mentora de V. I. Lotty ten?a tan s?lo nueve a?os cuando emigr? de Austria a Inglaterra, junto con un grupo de ni?os rescatados del terror nazi, ...
An anthology of stories edited by Sara ParetskyThis eclectic anthology from a variety of female mystery writers has something to please every fan. Editor and contributor Paretsky (V.I. Warshawski series) introduces the anthology with a brief history of Sisters in Crime, an organization formed by Paretsky in 1987 to help boost the profiles of women crime writers. The stories range in tone from Sue Henry's (Jessie Arnold series) haunting, lyrical "Sister Death" to "Murder for Lunch," Carolyn Hart's (Death on Demand series) tale of misunderstandings and murder. Libby Fischer Hellmann (Ellie Foreman series) and Susan Dunlap (Jill ...
The bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels have dazzled readers and earned the acclaim of critics everywhere. "V.I. Warshawski rules," writes Newsweek, crowning her "the most engaging woman in detective fiction." Of V.I.'s creator, the Chicago Tribune says "Sara Paretsky has no peer."Now Paretsky brings her incomparable storytelling brilliance to her most powerful Warshawski novel yet. Total Recall follows the Chicago P.I. on a road that winds back more than fifty years – and into an intricate maze of wartime lies, heartbreaking secrets, and harrowing retribution.For V.I., the journey begins with a ...
La investigadora privada V. I. Warshawski, experta en k?rate y tiradora mortal, es contratada por el vicepresidente de un importante banco de Chicago para que encuentre a la novia de su hijo Peter, misteriosamente desaparecida.Cuando Warshawski encuentra el cad?ver de Peter, su cliente se esfuma. Sin embargo, la detective se niega a abandonar la investigaci?n, y halla una pista que la convierte en la principal enemiga de una peligrosa organizaci?n integrada por asesinos a sueldo y pistoleros sin escr?pulos.
The teenage tennis star had a frighteningly brutal trainer-her father. So nobody cried when he got strangled in the women's locker room. Now V.I. Warshawski wants to clear the number one suspect-who was showering alone at the time in "Strung Out". And in "Skin Deep", after his trip to the salon the stranger wasn't looking so good. Maybe it was the poison facial. V.I. Warshawski tries a few new creams herself while she looks for somebody, anybody connected to this guy.
