This month's book club selection is Sara Paretsky’s classic detective novel, Indemnity Only. It’s the first book in the V.I. Warshawski series about the tough, endearing and very Chicago female ...

Don’t cry for V.I. She’s just fine. Trust me. You haven’t heard from her in a while, but that’s because she’s been enjoying herself in Italy — soaking up the sun, trying the wine, relaxing after too ...

Chicago private eye V.I. ("Vic") Warshawski needs all her strength and ingenuity to deal with the tragic effects of discrimination past and present in this riveting exploration of guilt and fear, the ...

Lotty Herschel, V.I. Warshawski’s stand-in maternal figure, needs her friend’s help in MWA Grand Master Paretsky’s riveting 20th novel featuring the intrepid Chicago PI (after 2017’s Fall Out). The ...

CHICAGOCHICAGO — Sara Paretsky’s latest installment in her series about feisty, female private detective V.I. Warshawski opens with the heroine outside a Chicago nightclub, the bloody body of a woman ...

Frustrated? Ashamed? Incredulous? Disturbing? The words fail, don’t they? How did it come to this – that we have a man whose moral and emotional temperament are absolutely unsuitable to be the leader ...

V.I. Warshawski returns, thank goodness, in “Brush Back”(Putnam’s, 480 pp., $27.95), the 17th in Sara Paretsky’s terrific series. Warshawski was a pioneer in the hard-boiled division of female private ...

CHICAGO -- Don't cry for V.I. She's just fine. You haven't heard from her in a while, but she has been enjoying her time in Italy -- soaking up the sun, trying the wine, relaxing after too many tough ...

A Chicago nightspot featuring nude performance art is hardly V.I. Warshawski's top choice for entertainment. The feisty private detective, who has figured in 14 ...

Sara Paretsky in 2012. Also shown is the cover of her new book. (Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune) Sara Paretsky sends V.I. Warshawski back to her South Side roots in her latest murder mystery, “Brush ...