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Sara Paretsky


USA flag (b.1947)

Sara Paretsky has a degree in finance and a PhD in history, and has worked as a conference manager and a promotion manager for a large insurance company. She is now a full time writer with seven Warshawski novels to her credit, including Toxic Shock which won the CWA Silver Dagger Award. 
 

Awards: Theakston (2015), Agatha (2015), Shamus (2005), CWA (2004)  see all

Genres: Mystery
 
Series
V.I. Warshawski
   1. Indemnity Only (1982)
   2. Deadlock (1984)
   3. Killing Orders (1985)
   4. Bitter Medicine (1987)
   5. Blood Shot (1988)
     aka Toxic Shock
   6. Burn Marks (1990)
   Windy City Blues (1991)
   7. Guardian Angel (1992)
   8. Tunnel Vision (1994)
   9. Hard Time (1999)
   10. Total Recall (2001)
   11. Blacklist (2003)
   12. Fire Sale (2005)
   13. Hardball (2009)
   14. Body Work (2010)
   Photo Finish (2011)
   15. Breakdown (2012)
   16. Critical Mass (2013)
   17. Brush Back (2015)
   Wildcat (2017)
   18. Fallout (2017)
   Death on the Edge (2018)
   19. Shell Game (2018)
   20. Dead Land (2020)
   21. Overboard (2022)
   22. Pay Dirt (2024)
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Novels
   Ghost Country (1998)
   Bleeding Kansas (2007)
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Collections
   A Taste of Life (1990)
   Love and Other Crimes (2020)
   Ends of Justice (2022)
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Anthologies edited
   Beastly Tales (1989)
   A Woman's Eye (1991)
   Female Sleuths (1993)
   Women on the Case (1996)
   Sisters on the Case (2007)
   Sisters on the Case Volume Two (2009)
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Series contributed to
Best Mystery Stories of the Year
   2. The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 (2022) (with Otto Penzler)
     aka Best Crime Stories of the Year 2
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Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Books containing stories by Sara Paretsky
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Crime Hits Home (2022)
(Mystery Writers of America Presents)
edited by
S J Rozan
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The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021 (2021)
Best Crime Stories of the Year 1

(Best Mystery Stories of the Year, book 1)
edited by
Lee Child and Otto Penzler
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Bullets and Other Hurting Things (2021)
A Tribute to Bill Crider
edited by
Rick Ollerman

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Awards
2015 Theakston Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution Award
2015 Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement
2005 The Eye, the PWA's Lifetime Achievement award
2004 CWA Gold Dagger : Blacklist
2002 CWA Diamond Dagger

Award nominations
2016 Shamus Award for Best PI Novel (nominee) : Brush Back
1994 CWA Gold Dagger (shortlist) : Tunnel Vision
1991 Macavity Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Burn Marks
1989 Shamus Award for Best PI Novel (nominee) : Blood Shot
1989 Macavity Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Blood Shot
1989 Anthony Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Blood Shot
1988 Macavity Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Bitter Medicine
1988 CWA Gold Dagger (shortlist) : Blood Shot
1986 Anthony Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Killing Orders
1982 John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger (shortlist) : Indemnity Only


Sara Paretsky recommends
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Wild Spaces (2023)
S L Coney
"If you mix Flannery O'Connor's sense of Southern grotesquerie with Shirley Jackson's tales of every day horror, you get Shaw Coney. What a stellar debut."
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In the Dark We Forget (2022)
Sandra SG Wong
"In the Dark We Forget is a hair-raising high-wire act. Wong gives us a hero whose search for her identity, and the truth of what happened to upend her life, reveals more than she wants to know, and leaves the reader gasping as much in admiration as in fear."
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Death at Greenway (2021)
Lori Rader-Day
"Death at Greenway is a book Lori Rader-Day was born to write. The characters are deeply moving, the suspense and World War II research are impeccable. The language, as is always the case with Rader-Day, is beautiful, but in Greenway, she shows her suppleness: her pitch-perfect dialogue brings England in the Blitz to life."

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