”You’ll feel handcuffed to this book until you’ve finished-probably at 3 a.m. finds is a web of conspiracy-and explosive secrets hidden in the darkest places of all. One was behind the wheel of a Trans Am she liked to drive too fast. unravels the mystery of a battered and discarded woman, she moves through circles of the rich and the troubled, into the bitter home of a powerful Chicago family, into the pampered world of a TV star, and behind the razor wire of a women’s prison. In an instant, the lives of two women collided. Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky revisits the gritty urban landscape she illuminates with brilliant compassion and vivid color. Hard Time by Sara Paretsky ISBN 13: 9780241140178 ISBN 10: 024114017X Paperback London: Hamish Hamilton, 1999 ISBN-13: 978-0241140178 Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretskys incomparable character V. In Hard Time, which heralds the triumphant return of the much-loved heroine V.I. Warshawski got out of her car to look at the woman she almost hit, she began a long, harrowing descent into a world of shadowy secrets and tangled lives-and into the darkest heart of her city. The other was lying in the road, dying an agonizing death. This book her best.”- The New York Times Book Review In an instant, the lives of two women collided. “When it comes to creating character, evoking place, and writing crackling and convincing dialogue, Sara Paretsky has no peer-and Hard Time proves it once again.”- Chicago Tribune “Terrific.
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