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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sara Paretsky will be the guest of honor at a Lawrence Public Library Foundation event on Friday. Sara Paretsky has a problem. And it’s becoming V.I. Warshawski’s problem, too. Paretsky says as the ...

I was among the thousands who marched down New York’s Fifth Avenue on August 26, 1970. We carried posters demanding pay equity, passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, free abortion on demand, or an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paretsky says: 'My fantasy is to live in a cave in the Italian hills, but with electricity, and a beautiful boy bringing me a cappuccino every morning' (Rex Features) From reproductive rights to ...

The recollections of Sara Paretsky, author of a clutch of American detective fiction books, is urgently relevant in that it speaks of an effort to help those deprived and needy find a voice This ...

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, ...

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 ...