January 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 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 MOREApril 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.
READ MOREJune 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 […]
READ MORENovember 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.
READ MORESeptember 23, 2020
Interview on Love & Other Crimes
On Sept. 14, Brian Vakulskas interviewed Sara for radio KSCJ about her new collection of short stories, Love & Other Crimes. Click to listen to this 16 min. interview.
READ MOREJuly 22, 2020
Love & Other Crimes Launch Events
On Wednesday, July 29 at 7 pm Women and Children First is hosting a virtual launch of Love & Other Crimes on my FaceBook page. I will read from Love & Other Crimes and will answer questions […]
READ MOREMarch 15, 2017
Watch V.I. in Action in this Video
If you’ve read the V.I. Warshawski books or stories, you know she travels the city up and down. She started when she was a child, performing hair-raising escapades with her cousin Boom-Boom, and she’s still racing around Chicago today.
READ MORENovember 18, 2015
BRUSH BACK named one of the best thrillers of 2015
The Washington Post named BRUSH BACK, Sara’s most recent novel, one of 2015’s top 5 thrillers.
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