He thought he'd felt Starr's presence when they came to the prairie grasses, some special fizziness in the air that made his blood race - although in his current state he couldn't tell the difference between desire and its object, and didn't know if he imagined the tingling in his blood or not. His warning had been the impulse of a moment he still didn't know how he came to shout it out. Sweat leaked down Hector's neck into his shirt collar, making him shiver in the warm night air. If only I'd told John Fremantle no one could live in his parents' old home because it was too run-down. If only I hadn't argued so much with Susan about the bonfires or the war. If only I had paid more attention to Chip, seen how unhappy he was. For a long time, he played that most useless of all games: if only. Jim saw himself as small, bewildered, holding out his hands in a futile effort to push back the funnels of wind. He'd never made it beyond sergeant, due partly to his lack of ambition, but also, I was sure, to his ancestry. He'd been a policeman himself, Polish in an Irish world. You must work.' She had hoped I would be a singer and had trained me patiently she certainly wouldn't have liked my being a detective. Any girl can be pretty - but to take care of yourself you must have brains. I could hear her saying, 'Yes, Vic, you are pretty-but pretty is no good.

I inherited my Italian mother's olive coloring, and tan beautifully. Writing in an Age of Silence (2007 Verso, 2009)

Women on the Case (Virago Press Ltd, 1997).

Deadlock (Ballantine Books, 1984 Dell, 2011).

Killing Orders (1985 William Morrow, 2011).

Bitter Medicine (1987 William Morrow, 2011).

Return to Topīibliography ( - housed in Thomas Fox Averill Kansas Studies Collection) Sara Paretsky still lives in Chicago and continues to write, having released Breakdown in early 2012. Although best known for the Warshawski series, Paratsky has also penned two stand-alone novels and several short stories and essays. Paretsky published her first novel, Indemnity Only, in 1982 which marked the first of many involving the female private investigator, V.I. In 1976, Paretsky married Courtenay Wright, a widower with three children.

in history from the University of Chicago. In 1968, Paretsky made the move to Chicago where she earned a Ph.D. Sara grew up in rural northeast Kansas near Lawrence and graduated from the University of Kansas. Sara Paretsky was born June 8, 1947, in Ames, Iowa, to David and Mary Paretsky, both of Jewish background.

Hard Time by Sara Paretsky