Books and libraries are under serious assault in the United States, author Sara Paretsky told University of Delaware students, faculty, staff and community members at the Friends of the UD Library ...

Sara Paretsky will be the guest of honor at a Lawrence Public Library Foundation event on Friday. Sara Paretsky has a problem. And it’s becoming V.I. Warshawski’s problem, too. Paretsky says as the ...

V.I. Warshawski, the private investigator who lives near Wrigley Field in Sara Paretsky’s beloved mystery novels, is a more devoted Cubs fan than the writer who created her. But not by much. Paretsky, ...

Books have shaped my life in more ways than I can explain. There are some key milestones that will always stand proud of the rest: the moment, reading a Chalet School book, when I understood that ...

Sara Paretsky returned to the scene of the crime. It was early June and traffic in River North on a Saturday morning was slow and quiet. Pet owners, pooches, strollers and the smell of toast. Paretsky ...

The case seems straightforward: A young woman is shot to death outside a nightclub in Chicago and the murder weapon turns up on the bed of a disturbed Iraq war veteran. But when the father of the ...

More than 200 people were packed between the bookshelves of the Coralville Public Library to see famed mystery writer Sara Paretsky accept the Paul Engle Prize on Friday night. One of the marquee ...

You would see him often at literary events around town, a distinguished figure patiently listening to what was often a parade of writers prattle on about their work. But whenever bestselling writer ...

The bestselling crime writer on hating femmes fatales, self doubt and creating a female character who refused to be silenced In 2007, Sara Paretsky took time out from her day job as a crime writer to ...

Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths. By Sarah Weinman Many crime novels are known ...