 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 She wrote from her earliest childhood on, but not for publication. In 2002, she received the Cartier Diamond Dagger for a lifetime achievement in crime writing. She is the creator of 'V.I. Warshawski', a private eye. Visit also this 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 [1990]) (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 |
| 17) Critical Mass | 2013 |
| 18) Brush Back | 2015 |
| 19) Wildcat (e-story) | 2017 |
| 20) Fallout | 2017 |
| 21) Death on the Edge (e-story) | 2018 |
| 22) Shell Game | 2018 |
| 23) Dead Land | 2020 |
| 24) Overboard | 2022 |
| Other Novels | |
| 1) Ghost Country | 1998 |
| 2) Bleeding Kansas | 2008 |
| 3) Love & Other Crimes (short stories) | 2020 |
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