検索キーワード： 著者 "Sara Paretsky" すべてのカテゴリー

En morgen kommer tante Elena til Vics dørtrin for bede om husly. Da tante Elenas hotel er braendt ned, accepterer Vic et kortvarigt ophold, og imens forsøger hun at finde et sted til tanten ved hjaelp af sine politiske kontakter. Da Vic bliver hyret til at opklare de mystiske omstaendigheder omkring hotelbranden, dukker liget af tantens unge ven op - og pludselig er tante Elena intet sted at finde.

Da Vics faetter, den tidligere hockeystjerne Boom-Boom Warshawski, under mystiske omstaendigheder findes død i Chicagos havn, saetter Vic sig for at finde hans morder. Hun er overbevist om, at Boom-Boom ikke blot er snublet på den glatte havnemole, men at fordaekte gerningsmaend har villet have ham af vejen, da han lå inde med oplysninger om kriminalitet i rederiindustrien.

A dangerous, depressed place reeking of bad memories, South Chicago is a neighbourhood private investigator V.I. Warshawski left a long time ago. But now she's back, drawn to the streets of her childhood once again to do a favour for a friend. It was never going to be easy - and when the mother of a local girl asks her to look into claims of sabotage at the factory where she works, V.I. quickly finds herself caught up in something far more sinister.

During a routine stake-out of a major client's former home, V.I. stumbles upon something she didn't expect to find: a body. The police immediately dismiss the victim as a drunken intruder, but V.I. sees things differently. Hired by the dead man's family to investigate, V.I. is lead back to the blacklists of the McCarthy era as well as into the murky operations of modern American government. Stopping at nothing in her quest for justice, V.I. soon discovers the perilous cost of bringing dark secrets to light....

While driving home after celebrating friend Murray Ryerson's big break into TV hosting, V.I. almost collides with a fatally wounded woman lying in the street. The deceased is Nicola Aguinaldo, former employee of security giant B.B. Baladine and recent prison runaway. Taking on the case, V.I. finds herself plunged into a sinister network of corruption that pits her against the police, the prison and the entertainment industry - with potentially lethal results.

Set in the Kaw River Valley, where Paretsky grew up, Bleeding Kansas is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the 1850s. Still terrified by the lawlessness of the 1970s - when Lawrence was the most violent college town in the nation - the Schapens have turned to that old-time religion. They keep a close eye on all their neighbors, most especially the Grelliers, and take careful note of everyone's misdeeds.

Chicago may be the city of broad shoulders, but its political law is "Pay to Play." Money changes hands in the middle of the night, and by morning, buildings and parks are replaced by billion-dollar projects. Chicago PI V. I. Warshawski gets pulled into one of these clandestine deals through her impetuous goddaughter, Bernie Fouchard. Bernie tries to rescue Lydia Zamir, a famed singer-songwriter now living on the streets; Zamir’s life fell apart when her lover was murdered next to her in a mass shooting at an outdoor concert.

V .I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her intelligence, her humor, her unflinching courage, and her love of good coffee. But even the strongest people sometimes need a break to recharge, so her friends send her to Kansas for a weekend of college basketball where Angela, one of her protégées, is playing. And that’s where trouble finds V.I.

Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.

"Heksejagt" er den 11. bog om V.I. Warshawski. I kølvandet på 11. september påtager V.I. Warshawski sig en opgave for en tidligere klient. Hun skal overvåge et gammelt familielandsted, der står tomt, men en nat overrasker hun en ubuden gæst og styrter i guldfiskebassinet. Da hun griber ud efter noget at holde fast i, lukker hendes fingre sig om en iskold hånd. Et lig er dukket op til overfladen. Opdagelsen hvirvler V.I. ind i to store Chicago-familiers historier, hvor der tegner sig et kompliceret spil om blod, sex, penge, skandaler – og mord.

"Intet glemt" er den 10. bog om V.I. Warshawski. For V.I. begynder sagen ved en konference i Chicago, hvor vrede demonstranter kræver udbetaling af Holocaust-midler. En ukendt mand rejser sig under konferencen og fortæller en forbløffende historie om en barndom, der blev ødelagt af Holocaust – en historie, der har rystende konsekvenser for Lotty Herschel, V.I.’s ven og mentor. Lotty tvinges til at huske sin barndom. Hun blev som niårig sammen med en lille gruppe jævnaldrende børn sendt fra Østrig til London lige inden nazisternes terror begyndte.

"Drøje tider" er den 9. bog om V.I. Warshawski. Et verdensomspændende multimedieforetagende, Global Entertainment, har erhvervet Chicago-avisen, The Herald-Star, og tvunget avisens medarbejdere til det ene kompromis efter det andet for at bevare deres job. Det lykkes reporteren, Murray Ryerson, V.I. Warshawskys gode ven og rival gennem længere tid, at skabe sig en karriere som vært for et tv-show på Globals netværk. På vej hjem fra en reception for at fejre Murrays debut som skærmtrold, er V.I. millimeter fra at køre over en kvinde, der ligger på gaden.

En hjemløs i Chicagos gader ser i en åbenbaring Jomfru Marias ansigt vædet med tårer af blod på en garagemur under et luksushotel. Og inden længe valfarter andre udstødte kvinder til muren. Men hotellet vil have fjernet de hjemløse, der virker provokerende på gæsterne, og beder hotellets advokat, Harriet Stonds løse problemet.

When a young woman named Sabrina disappears without a trace in Kansas, private investigator V.I. Warshawski knows she must act fast. But when she discovers Sabrina close to death in a drug house, the locals don't take kindly to her - and Sabrina's mother becomes suspicious. V.I. finds herself under the sharp gaze of the FBI - and the men running the county's opioid distribution. And when a dead body surfaces a few days later, V.I. is pitched headlong into a battle between the locals - with roots that date all the way back to the American Civil War.