FICTION
Released: May 15, 1987
"Superior stuff."
Another bumpy trip for Chicago's tough, gruff super P.I.-lawyer V.I. Warshawski (Deadlock, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 5, 1992
"Suspense rarely flags through the slightly excessive length here—densely textured, adroitly plotted, and one of the author's best."
FICTION
Released: June 1, 1994
"Strictly overkill for a heroine gone from hard-edged to hard-bitten and a creative writer on a self-indulgent rampage."
Chicago PI V.I. Warshawski (Guardian Angel, 1992, etc.) discovers frail, frightened Tamar Hawkings and her three children living in the rat-infested basement of V.I.'s soonto-be-abandoned office building.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 13, 1995
"Enough here to keep Paretsky's many fans going until their next novel-length fix, then, but nothing likely to win new followers."
FICTION
Released: June 1, 1998
"Still, Paretsky's ambitious, ambiguously religious novel earns an honorable place in the gallery of straight fiction by mystery writers from P.D. James's Innocent Blood to Walter Mosley's RL's Dream."
The Holy Spirit, or someone very like her, appears on the mean Chicago streets usually watched over by Paretsky's detective V.I. Warshawski (Windy City Blues, 1995, etc.)—and, brother, is she in a state.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 12, 1999
"A triumphant return to form for V.I., who's come back from a five-year sabbatical (Tunnel Vision, 1994, etc.) as strong as Vladimir Horowitz."
Driving home one night from a party for Global Studio star Lacey Dowell (the Mad Virgin), V.I. Warshawski nearly runs over a woman dying on an Edgewater street.
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