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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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September 10, 2024

Writers Digest interviews Sara

Clay Stafford has a conversation with Sara on the writing process, how editing works, why Simon and Schuster rejected her first novel, and more

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May 24, 2024

Pay Dirt Launch – Lawrence Public Library talk

The Lawrence Public Library and Raven Book Store hosted Sara during the launch of Pay Dirt. You can hear her full talk here.

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April 16, 2024

The Good Reviews Keep Coming

Pay Dirt has hit the stands, and the reviews are clear that THIS is the book to read. It’s made USA Today’s April booklist, as well as those of Crime […]

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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 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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April 28, 2023

Coming April 16, 2024: Pay Dirt

V.I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her sardonic humor, and her unflinching courage. All that changed when a case ended with a father killing the child she’d been hired to find. She’s second-guessing herself, forgetting to eat, forgetting her workout.

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June 3, 2022

The Reviews Are In!

Overboard is now on sale everywhere and I’m pleased to report that the reviews have been positive. The Washington Post chose it as one of their 10 noteworthy books for […]

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November 16, 2020

Preorder Overboard

V.I. is back in Overboard. On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski is led by her dogs on a mad chase that ends when they discover a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The girl only regains consciousness long enough to utter one enigmatic word.

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