From the Publisher
"A crime-fiction pro struts her stuff with short works featuring V.I. Warshawski, her prickly, stalwart Chicago PI, plus several homages to detectives past. Murder binds these wonderfully varied tales, but so does love—including that of a girl for a lab mouse she is determined to save." — People on Love & Other Crimes
"Paretsky shows she’s as superior a writer of the short-form crime story as she is of the novel in this consistently entertaining collection." — Washington Post on Love & Other Crimes
"The well-wrought plots and densely imagined worlds make this the most distinguished mystery collection so far this year." — Kirkus (starred review) on Love & Other Crimes
"Paretsky continues to thrill . . . In addition to heart-pounding crime fighting and sleuthing, these stories run deep with aching sketches of love and loss. Some contain scathing political commentary, with haunting versions of possible futures. Fans of witty characters, complicated plots, stories with somber endings, and, of course, V.I Warshawski will enjoy this book." — Library Journal on Love & Other Crimes
"A wisely provocative and zestfully entertaining crime collection."
— Booklist (starred review) on Love & Other Crimes
"The love that really comes through in each story is the love and empathy Paretsky has for her all-too-human characters." — Publishers Weekly on Love & Other Crimes
“Wonderful company and a rich discovery awaiting those who have yet to meet [Warshawski]. ” — Los Angeles Times
“Sara Paretsky reigns as one of the all-time greats.” — Karin Slaughter
“Sara Paretsky is a legend . . . If you haven’t read her yet, now is the time.” — Harlan Coben
“As long as Paretsky’s hotheaded, quick-witted sleuth is on the job, imperiled young women . . . will always have a champion.” — New York Times Book Review
“I’m a fanboy . . . When I was teaching myself to write thrillers, I closely studied Sara Paretsky’s detective V. I. Warshawski.” — John Sandford
“Legendary V.I. Warshawski is as dogged and ferocious as ever. So is Sara Paretsky, who is at the top of her crime novel game.” — C.J. Box
“Writing advance praise for Sara Paretsky is like writing a job recommendation for Bill Gates. Paretsky is the gold standard for novels dealing with crime and its consequences.” — Charlaine Harris
People on Love & Other Crimes
"A crime-fiction pro struts her stuff with short works featuring V.I. Warshawski, her prickly, stalwart Chicago PI, plus several homages to detectives past. Murder binds these wonderfully varied tales, but so does love—including that of a girl for a lab mouse she is determined to save."
New York Times Book Review
As long as Paretsky’s hotheaded, quick-witted sleuth is on the job, imperiled young women . . . will always have a champion.
Booklist (starred review) on Love & Other Crimes
"A wisely provocative and zestfully entertaining crime collection."
Washington Post on Love & Other Crimes
"Paretsky shows she’s as superior a writer of the short-form crime story as she is of the novel in this consistently entertaining collection."
Karin Slaughter
Sara Paretsky reigns as one of the all-time greats.
Harlan Coben
Sara Paretsky is a legend . . . If you haven’t read her yet, now is the time.
|Los Angeles Times
Wonderful company and a rich discovery awaiting those who have yet to meet [Warshawski].
null People on Love & Other Crimes
"A crime-fiction pro struts her stuff with short works featuring V.I. Warshawski, her prickly, stalwart Chicago PI, plus several homages to detectives past. Murder binds these wonderfully varied tales, but so does love—including that of a girl for a lab mouse she is determined to save."
null Washington Post on Love & Other Crimes
"Paretsky shows she’s as superior a writer of the short-form crime story as she is of the novel in this consistently entertaining collection."
null Booklist (starred review) on Love & Other Crimes
"A wisely provocative and zestfully entertaining crime collection."
C.J. Box
Legendary V.I. Warshawski is as dogged and ferocious as ever. So is Sara Paretsky, who is at the top of her crime novel game.
Los Angeles Times
Wonderful company and a rich discovery awaiting those who have yet to meet [Warshawski].
Charlaine Harris
Writing advance praise for Sara Paretsky is like writing a job recommendation for Bill Gates. Paretsky is the gold standard for novels dealing with crime and its consequences.
John Sandford
I’m a fanboy . . . When I was teaching myself to write thrillers, I closely studied Sara Paretsky’s detective V. I. Warshawski.
Kirkus Reviews
★ 2020-03-29
Fourteen stories, most dating from 1996 to 2018, about Chicago shamus V.I. Warshawski, her friends and family, and a remarkably diverse group of other people.
Five of the seven stories about Warshawski are first-rate; only “Wildcat,” which takes the young Victoria’s family through the disruption of Martin Luther King’s 1966 visit to Chicago, and “Is It Justice?” a wish-fulfillment sequel to Critical Mass (2013) in which somebody shoots a newly exonerated killer as he descends the courthouse steps, play better as politics than fiction. In the others, V.I. seeks out a student she humiliated at a high school Q&A; finds a contemporary case of plagiarism beneath a decade-old murder; hunts down her client’s father only to be told that he’s not her client’s father; turns down a bodyguard gig on behalf of a wealthy author who begins trash-talking her every chance she gets; and, in the brand-new title story, goes to bat for her dislikable ex-neighbor’s kid brother when he’s arrested for murder. What’s even more impressive is the variety of the other seven stories. Paretsky effortlessly masters Dr. Watson’s voice in an adventure that shows Sherlock Holmes bested by an upstart American and sends Carroll John Daly’s pioneering hard-boiled dick Race Williams to the 1933 Century of Progress Fair. The deftly plotted “Acid Test” shows an apostle of nonviolence arrested for bombing a neighbor’s scientific institute. The charming “Miss Bianca” turns on a 10-year-old girl’s solicitude for a lab mouse. The dystopian fantasy “Safety First” and “Trial by Fire,” a pendant to Bleeding Kansas (2007), show off Paretsky’s willingness to take risks. And “Heartbreak House,” in which a romance writer’s editor recommends that she consult a psychotherapist, who promptly gets killed, ends the collection on a wryly amused note.
The well-wrought plots and densely imagined worlds make this the most distinguished mystery collection so far this year.
