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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 […]
READ MOREJanuary 22, 2024
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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
February 4, 2022
Sal’s Gin and Grits
Opening scene; ext shot, Sal’s Gin and Grits. This is a dingy building on an urban street, windows heavily barred and with thick blinds blocking any view of the interior. A door of re-enforced steel is locked. Surveillance cameras cover the sidewalk.
READ MORENovember 17, 2021
Tom Phillips Changed My Life
The summer I turned 19, in 1966, Martin Luther King came to Chicago to support the local Civil Rights movement in their fight for open housing, and for access to jobs. The Presbytery of Chicago supported this mission, and asked for college students volunteers, who would be embedded in the neighborhoods, and assist in any way asked of them.
READ MOREAugust 3, 2021
Girl, Interrupting
Andromeda came into this world with a few impediments to the happy life most parents want for their daughters. She had a cleft lip and a wall eye. And her parents gave her a weird name. Who knows why?
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