Hard Time (Magill’s Literary Annual 2000)
At a glance:
- Author: Sara Paretsky
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1990’s
- Setting: Chicago
- Principal Characters: V. I. (Victoria Iphigenia, “Vic”) Warshawski, Mr. Contreras, Dr. Lotty Herschel, Morrell, Father Lou, Mary Louise Neeley, Nicola Aguinaldo, Lucien Frenada, Murray Ryerson, Lacey Dowell, Edmund Trant, Alexandra Fisher, Lemour, Robert Baladine, Robbie Baladine, Peppy and Mitch
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Prisons, Murder or homicide, Chicago, Detectives, Mysteries, Corruption, Mass media, 1990’s, Hospitals, Private investigators
- Locales: Chicago, IL
Sara Paretsky is the author of the consistently best-selling and highly acclaimed series of mystery novels featuring V. I. Warshawski, a Chicago lawyer turned private investigator who is known for her toughness, her personal integrity, and her persistence in solving crimes, especially those whose victims are the downtrodden. In this, the tenth novel in the series that started with Indemnity Only in 1982, V. I. needs all the determination and strength she can bring to bear against a multiplicity of corrupt and murderous forces.
The novel opens at a party at the Golden Glow,...
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