Hardball (V. I. Warshawski) - Softcover

Paretsky, Sara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451412931 ISBN 13: 9780451412935

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, 2010

Synopsis

The long-awaited return of V.I. Warshawski

Chicago politics-past, present, and future-take center stage in New York Times bestselling author Sara Peretsky's complex and compelling new V.I. Warshawski novel. When Warshawski is asked to find a man who's been missing for four decades, a search that she figured would be futile becomes lethal. Old skeletons from the city's racially charged history, as well as haunting family secrets-her own and those of the elderly sisters who hired her-rise up with a vengeance.

About this title

Review:

She is writing with the kind of passion for social justice that inspired Chandler and Hammett . . . a narrative as gripping as it is emotionally wrenching. (Joan Smith, Sunday Times)

Details are so rich and the dialogue so snappy that the mystery whizzes by. (Guardian)

With the creation of V.I. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky did more than anyone to change the face of contemporary women's fiction. (Express on Sunday)

Tough, complex and moving, Paretsky is still at the top of her crowded genre. (Bookseller)

The thing about Sara Paretsky is, she's tough . . . she doesn't flinch from examining old social injustices others might find too shameful (and too painful) to dig up . . . it's a distinct pleasure to hear her unapologetically strident voice once again (The New York Times)

Book Description:

The thrilling thirteenth V.I. Warshawski novel from one of America's greatest female crime author who writes with unbeatable pace and a passion for justice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0451412931
• ISBN 13: 9780451412935
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 553