Read Series: V.I. Warshawski
by Author Sara Paretsky
Total Recall (2015)
Age and experience has not withered VI Warshawski. In Sara Paretsky's latest tale, Total Recall, the uncompromising and wildly unconventional private investigator chases leads and suspects around Chicago "like a pinball, careening around the city", despite the fact that she is now positively the ...
Bitter Medicine (1988)
This is book #4 of the V.I. Warshawski series and was published back in the days when Paretsky books were smaller and shorter. This one is 222 pages in the original hardback version published in 1987, an amazing twenty-five years ago. What were you reading in 1987? I will be interested to see how...
Tunnel Vision (1995)
This is the eighth book in the V.I. Warshawski series. The year is 1992 and V.I. is making her usual effort to do good community organizing and to scratch out a living working at her one person private investigation agency. She has so many rough edges that it is hard to get close to her. Hardscra...
Fire Sale (2006)
VI loose in her old S. Chicago hood, chasing shadows...We've read the entire prior dozen entries in Paretsky's Chicago leading lady, private investigator V.I. Warshawski series -- so we guess we're fans at least by default. We were definitely not fond of her just prior "Blacklist" which was so fu...
Blacklist (2015)
One of the reasons I am fond of Sara Paretsky is her ability to locate her stories in the political and social events of the day. In the first chapter of Blacklist, set in 2002, she reflects on the World Trade Center, the Taliban, Afghanistan and anthrax. V.I. Warshawski leans to the left and I l...
Indemnity Only (1991)
Oddly, even though I've read many of the V.I. Warshawski novels, I'd yet to read the first one until; now.I have certain expectations of one of Vic Warshawski's exploits: well-written; tightly plotted; intricately bound up with Chicago culturally, politically. and topographically; gritty, and, of...
Burn Marks (1991)
I ran across the word “aeon” in a book I just finished and then again in a book that I just started. Both spelled in this British way rather than the more common “eon”. I considered that a sign. Both books were published in 1990 and I thought that cinched it. I should move into the current era an...
Blood Shot (1989)
When I started this book, I didn’t understand how much I wanted a read that rose to five stars. Blood Shot doesn’t rise to the level of great classical literature but it served my needs better than I could have hoped. Lots of action requiring suspension of disbelief led to a conclusion worthy of ...
Killing Orders (2005)
I am reading several books at the same time. I often do that when I am reading a difficult book. Killing Orders is my R&R from reading The Girls Who Went Away, a book about the experiences of young unwed women who released their babies for adoption in the 1950s and 1960s. V.I. Warshawski with al...
Hardball (2009)
V.I. is hired to search for a young gangster who has been missing since the night of a snowstorm in 1967. Her search leads to confrontations with an incarcerated gang leader, to involvement with a decades-old murder that took place during a civil rights demonstration, and gets entangled with the ...