Jones, Manina. “Shot/Reverse Shot: Dis-solving the Feminist Detective Story in Kanew’s Film V. I. Warshawski.” In Diversity and Detective Fiction, edited by Kathleen Gregory Klein. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1999. Jones proclaims the film, based on Paretsky’s first two novels, a “marketing concept” and contrasts the Disney version of the character with Paretsky’s subversive detective.

Kinsman, Margaret. “A Band of Sisters.” In The Art of Detective Fiction, edited by Warren Chernaik, Martin Swales, and Robert Vilain. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Kingsman discusses the importance of women’s friendships in the V. I. Warshawski novels.

Knight, Stephen. Crime Fiction, 1800-2000: Detection, Death, Diversity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Devotes significant discussion to Paretsky as a dominant force both in contemporary hard-boiled detective novels and in the increasing presence in fiction of female private eyes.

Lindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley, ed. Great Women Mystery Writers. 2d ed. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007. The many references to Paretsky in this nearly comprehensive work testifies to the importance of the writer within and beyond her genre.

Mizejewski, Lind. Hardboiled and High-Heeled: The Woman Detective in Popular Culture. New York: Routledge, 2004. As one of the seminal detectives of recent hard-boiled fiction, who helped break ground for tougher, younger female sleuths, Paretsky’s V. I. Warshawski comes in for her share of discussion in this narrowly themed book.

Paretsky, Sara. Sara Paretsky. http://www.saraparetsky.com. This well-managed Web site offers a wealth of information on the author, her work, and her characters. Paretsky clearly has much input, and the reader will find interviews and press releases, as well as links suggested by Paretsky herself.

Paretsky, Sara. Writing in an Age of Silence. New York: Verso, 2007. A book of essays, many based on lectures Paretsky has given, that form a memoir describing Paretsky’s life and work and her interest in political and social dissent. She describes how she developed her V. I. Warshawski character.

Priestman, Martin. The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. This valuable reference devotes a full chapter to women detectives, focusing primarily on those of Marcia Muller, Sue Grafton, and Paretsky.

Reddy, Maureen T. “Loners and Hard-Boiled Women.” In Sisters in Crime: Feminism and the Crime Novel. New York: Continuum, 1988. Reddy’s book locates Paretsky’s work in a historical context of women investigators in detective fiction.

Scaggs, John. Crime Fiction. New York: Routledge, 2005. Contains significant discussion of Paretsky’s work. Scaggs sees Paretsky’s appropriation of the hard-boiled detective model as a validation of the form.

Shaker-Haines, Timothy, and Martha M. Umphrey. “Gender (De)Mystified: Resistance and Recuperation in Hard-Boiled Female Detective Fiction.” In The Detective in American Fiction, Film, and Television, edited by Jerome H. Delamater and Ruth Prigozy. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. This article examines the different challenges to the traditional genre.