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Hard Time

Hard Time

by Sara Paretsky

1999FictionV. I. Warshawski (Fictitious character)Women detectivesDetective and mystery storiesWomen private investigators
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First lines

LACEY DOWELL CLUTCHED her crucifix, milky breasts thrust forward, as she backed away from her unseen assailant.

About this book

"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. And for V.I., unraveling the mystery of a battered and discarded woman will plunge her into the darkest and most emotionally shattering case of her career, taking her into the troubled home of a wealthy Chicago family, into the pampered world of a Hollywood star, and behind the razor wire of a women's prison, where the more dangerous criminals may be on the wrong side of the bars."--BOOK JACKET.

Themes & subjects

FictionV. I. Warshawski (Fictitious character)Women detectivesDetective and mystery storiesWomen private investigatorsTraffic accident victims
First published 1999

Setting

IllinoisChicagoChicago (Ill.)

About the author

Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky

8 Jun 1947

Author

Sara Paretsky

First published

1999

Pages

400

Read time

≈ 10h

Editions

15

Language

English

Publisher

Delacorte Press

ISBN

9780375707803

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