 Sara Paretsky was born in Iowa. She grew up in Kansas and studied at Kansas University. She wrote from her earliest childhood on, but not for publication. That started in 1982 with her first V.I. Warshawski novel. In 2002, she received the Cartier Diamond Dagger for a lifetime achievement in crime writing. Visit also the author's own site. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 'V.I. Warshawski' Novels | |
| 1) Indemnity Only | 1982 |
| 2) Deadlock | 1984 |
| 3) Killing Orders | 1985 |
| 4) Bitter Medicine | 1987 |
| 5) Blood Shot (Also published as: Toxic Shock) (Silver Dagger Award) | 1988 |
| 6) Burn Marks | 1990 |
| 7) Guardian Angel | 1991 |
| 8) Tunnel Vision | 1994 |
| 9) Windy City Blues (short stories) | 1995 |
| 10) Hard Time | 1999 |
| 11) Total Recall | 2001 |
| 12) Blacklist (Gold Dagger Award) | 2003 |
| 13) Fire Sale | 2005 |
| 14) Hardball | 2009 |
| 15) Body Work | 2010 |
| 16) Breakdown | 2012 |
| Other Novels | |
| 1) Ghost Country | 1998 |
| 2) Bleeding Kansas | 2008 |
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