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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 […]

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March 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 […]

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March 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 […]

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November 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 […]

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January 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 […]

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January 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 […]

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December 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 […]

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December 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 […]

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September 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 […]

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June 30, 2022

Life After Dobbs

Spared the flames
I returned to Domremy
Minded my brothers’ children and their sheep

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