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Hard Time : A V. I. Warshawski Novel by Sara Paretsky (2000, Mass Market)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100440224705
ISBN-139780440224709
eBay Product ID (ePID)1707930
Product Key Features
Book TitleHard Time : a V. I. Warshawski Novel
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
Publication Year2000
GenreFiction
AuthorSara Paretsky
Book SeriesV. I. Warshawski Ser.
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight9.7 Oz
Item Length6.7 in
Item Width4.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsPraise for Sara Paretsky: "Paretsky's books are beautifully paced and plotted, and the dialogue is fresh and smart." --Newsweek "Paretsky is still the best . . . she doesn't pull punches." --The Washington Post Book World "Sara Paretsky has hit the big time . . . she gets better and better!" --Los Angeles Times Book Review, Praise for Sara Paretsky: "Paretsky's books are beautifully paced and plotted, and the dialogue is fresh and smart." --Newsweek "Paretsky is still the best...she doesn't pull punches." --The Washington Post Book World "Sara Paretsky has hit the big time...she gets better and better!" --Los Angeles Times Book Review, Praise for Sara Paretsky: "Paretsky's books are beautifully paced and plotted, and the dialogue is fresh and smart." -- Newsweek "Paretsky is still the best...she doesn't pull punches." -- The Washington Post Book World "Sara Paretsky has hit the big time...she gets better and better!" -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
Series Volume Number9
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
SynopsisAmong the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky's incomparable character V. I. Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full-length appearance since 1994's Tunnel Vision . Hard Time is the work of a master--a riveting novel of suspense that is indisputably Paretsky's best V.I. Warshawski novel yet. Multimedia conglomerate Global Entertainment has purchased the Chicago Herald-Star, forcing the paper's staff to scramble to stay employed. Reporter Murray Ryerson, V.I.'s longtime friend and sometime rival, manages to reinvent himself as the host of a television show on Global's network. On her way home from a party celebrating Murray's debut, V.I. almost runs over a woman lying in the street. Stopping to help, V.I. soon learns that her Good Samaritan act will drop her squarely in a boiling intrigue. In a case that forces her to go head-to-head with one of the world's largest providers of private security and prison services, a case that exposes dark hidden truths behind the razzle-dazzle of the entertainment industry, V.I. will be ahead of the game if she gets out alive., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "When it comes to creating character, evoking place, and writing crackling and convincing dialogue, Sara Paretsky has no peer--and Hard Time proves it once again."-- Chicago Tribune "Terrific . . . expertly plotted . . . This book [is] her best."-- The New York Times Book Review In an instant, the lives of two women collided. One was behind the wheel of a Trans Am she liked to drive too fast. The other was lying in the road, dying an agonizing death. When Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski got out of her car to look at the woman she almost hit, she began a long, harrowing descent into a world of shadowy secrets and tangled lives--and into the darkest heart of her city. In Hard Time , which heralds the triumphant return of the much-loved heroine V.I. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky revisits the gritty urban landscape she illuminates with brilliant compassion and vivid color. For as V.I. unravels the mystery of a battered and discarded woman, she moves through circles of the rich and the troubled, into the bitter home of a powerful Chicago family, into the pampered world of a TV star, and behind the razor wire of a women's prison. What V.I. finds is a web of conspiracy--and explosive secrets hidden in the darkest places of all. . . . "You'll feel handcuffed to this book until you've finished--probably at 3 a.m."-- The Denver Post, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "When it comes to creating character, evoking place, and writing crackling and convincing dialogue, Sara Paretsky has no peer--and Hard Time proves it once again."-- Chicago Tribune "Terrific . . . expertly plotted . . . This book [is] her best."-- The New York Times Book Review In an instant, the lives of two women collided. One was behind the wheel of a Trans Am she liked to drive too fast. The other was lying in the road, dying an agonizing death. When Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski got out of her car to look at the woman she almost hit, she began a long, harrowing descent into a world of shadowy secrets and tangled lives--and into the darkest heart of her city. In Hard Time , which heralds the triumphant return of the much-loved heroine V.I. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky revisits the gritty urban landscape she illuminates with brilliant compassion and vivid color. For as V.I. unravels the mystery of a battered and discarded woman, she moves through circles of the rich and the troubled, into the bitter home of a powerful Chicago family, into the pampered world of a TV star, and behind the razor wire of a women's prison. What V.I. finds is a web of conspiracy--and explosive secrets hidden in the darkest places of all. . . . "You'll feel handcuffed to this book until you've finished--probably at 3 a.m."-- The Denver Post
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