Sara Paretsky returned to the scene of the crime. It was early June and traffic in River North on a Saturday morning was slow and quiet. Pet owners, pooches, strollers and the smell of toast. Paretsky ...

Books and libraries are under serious assault in the United States, author Sara Paretsky told University of Delaware students, faculty, staff and community members at the Friends of the UD Library ...

CHICAGOCHICAGO — Sara Paretsky’s latest installment in her series about feisty, female private detective V.I. Warshawski opens with the heroine outside a Chicago nightclub, the bloody body of a woman ...

V.I. Warshawski, the private investigator who lives near Wrigley Field in Sara Paretsky’s beloved mystery novels, is a more devoted Cubs fan than the writer who created her. But not by much. Paretsky, ...

More than 200 people were packed between the bookshelves of the Coralville Public Library to see famed mystery writer Sara Paretsky accept the Paul Engle Prize on Friday night. One of the marquee ...

The case seems straightforward: A young woman is shot to death outside a nightclub in Chicago and the murder weapon turns up on the bed of a disturbed Iraq war veteran. But when the father of the ...

You would see him often at literary events around town, a distinguished figure patiently listening to what was often a parade of writers prattle on about their work. But whenever bestselling writer ...

The bestselling crime writer on hating femmes fatales, self doubt and creating a female character who refused to be silenced In 2007, Sara Paretsky took time out from her day job as a crime writer to ...

Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths. By Sarah Weinman Many crime novels are known ...

Over the course of 13 novels about the ball-breaking private investigator V I Warshawski, there’s barely a square inch of her adopted Chicago that Sara Paretsky hasn’t written about. But she finds her ...