Love and Other Crimes Author:Sara Paretsky A collection of fourteen thrilling crime and detective short stories, most dating from 1996 to 2018, many featuring legendary Chicago shamus V.I. Warshawski, her friends and family, and a remarkably diverse group of other people. For longtime fans of V.I. Warshawski, new readers discovering her for the first time, or any lover of crime and... more » bone-chilling suspense, this collection is a celebration of Paretsky’s exceptional storytelling skill and a searing exploration of the dark conspiracies and desperate human acts hiding in plain sight.
In the new title story, "Love & Other Crimes", V.I. treads the line between justice and vengeance when the wrongful firing of a family friend makes him a murder suspect. In "Miss Bianca", a young girl becomes involved in espionage when she befriends a mouse in a laboratory that is conducting dark experiments. Ten-year-old V.I. Warshawski appears in "Wildcat", embarking on her very first investigation to save her father. A hardboiled New York detective and elderly British aristocrat team up to reveal a murderer in Chicago during the World's Fair in "Murder at the Century of Progress"...and other stories.« less