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April 23, 2025
Bad Company – Chapter 1
1 Park Dwellers The woman rubbed her sore hip, sore where she’d landed and,sat heavily on a bench. Someone was already there, guarding a shopping cart full of black plastic […]
READ MOREMarch 17, 2025
Speaking In An Age of Fear
Since November 5, I have been in a place of rage, and fear, and disbelief, that frequently leaves me paralyzed and immobile. I try to work on my novel, I […]
READ MOREMarch 17, 2025
Speaking in a time of fear
Since November 5, I have been in a place of rage, and fear, and disbelief, that frequently leaves me paralyzed and immobile. I try to work on my novel, I […]
READ MORENovember 3, 2024
Cloudy, With a Chance of Death: the forecast for Women’s Health in Trump’s America
No one should be exposed like this to the public gaze: doubled-over naked on the floor, covered in blood, but that was how Gerri Santoro died. She was 28, mother […]
READ MOREJanuary 22, 2024
Want a Free Paretsky Short Story?
Pay Dirt is a prequel to the adventures of Cady Perec. Cady is a social studies teacher in Lawrence, Kansas, who plays a big role in Pay Dirt. She also appeared […]
READ MOREJanuary 22, 2024
Get a Free Paretsky Short Story
Pay Dirt is a prequel to the adventures of Cady Perec. Cady is a social studies teacher in Lawrence, Kansas, who plays a big role in Pay Dirt. She also appeared […]
READ MOREDecember 24, 2023
One Last Favor
Have you ever had to work for someone who was so entitled they thought you should sweep the sidewalk in front of them? A friend of mine did when life […]
READ MOREDecember 17, 2023
Sara on the Axe Files
Sara joined David Axelrod, founder and director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, on his CNN podcast The Axe Files. She talked about her family history, the recent […]
READ MORESeptember 5, 2023
David Thompson Special Service Award
Sara is pleased to be this year’s recipient of the David Thompson Special Service Award, given by the Bouchercon Board to honor the memory and contributions to the crime fiction […]
READ MOREJune 30, 2022
Life After Dobbs
Spared the flames
I returned to Domremy
Minded my brothers’ children and their sheep