|
Showing 1 - 25 of
57 matches in All Departments
Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a mystery with roots
dating back to the Civil War in this edge-of-your-seat thriller
from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky. V.I. Warshawski is
famous for her cool under fire, her sardonic humor, and her
unflinching courage. All that changes when a case ends with a
father killing the child she'd been hired to find. She's
second-guessing herself, forgetting to eat, forgetting her workout.
Her worried friends send her down to Kansas for a weekend of
college basketball; Angela, one of her protégées, is a
Northwestern star. And that's when V.I.'s troubles really begin.
Sabrina, one of Angela's roommates, disappears and V.I. agrees to
stay behind to try to find her. Finding a missing person in a town
where she doesn't know anyone and has no snitches is hard, but not
as hard as the local reaction to the detective. When V.I. finds
Sabrina close to death in a drug house, the mother's gratitude
quickly turns to suspicion. V.I. finds herself in the FBI's
crosshairs, and the young men running the county's opioid
distribution are not happy. When V.I. discovers a local
troublemaker's dead body in the drug house a few days later, she is
pitched headlong into a local land-use battle with roots going back
to the Civil War. Today's combatants are just as willing as
opponents in the 1860s to kill to settle their differences. V.I.'s
survival depends on keeping one step ahead of players in a game she
doesn't even know she's playing.
|
Pay Dirt - A Thriller
Sara Paretsky
|
R804
R611
Discovery Miles 6 110
Save R193 (24%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a mystery with roots
dating back to the Civil War in this edge-of-your-seat thriller
from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky. V.I. Warshawski is
famous for her cool under fire, her sardonic humor, and her
unflinching courage. All that changes when a case ends with a
father killing the child she'd been hired to find. She's
second-guessing herself, forgetting to eat, forgetting her workout.
Her worried friends send her down to Kansas for a weekend of
college basketball; Angela, one of her protégées, is a
Northwestern star. And that's when V.I.'s troubles really begin.
Sabrina, one of Angela's roommates, disappears and V.I. agrees to
stay behind to try to find her. Finding a missing person in a town
where she doesn't know anyone and has no snitches is hard, but not
as hard as the local reaction to the detective. When V.I. finds
Sabrina close to death in a drug house, the mother's gratitude
quickly turns to suspicion. V.I. finds herself in the FBI's
crosshairs, and the young men running the county's opioid
distribution are not happy. When V.I. discovers a local
troublemaker's dead body in the drug house a few days later, she is
pitched headlong into a local land-use battle with roots going back
to the Civil War. Today's combatants are just as willing as
opponents in the 1860s to kill to settle their differences. V.I.'s
survival depends on keeping one step ahead of players in a game she
doesn't even know she's playing.
International bestselling author Sara Paretsky selects the twenty
best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Michael
Connelly, Jo Nesbo, Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead, and more
in this crime connoisseur's collection. Under the auspices of New
York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The
Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist
Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara
Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and
most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in
one entertaining volume. The classic mystery tale will be familiar
to aficionados and casual readers alike: it was invented by Edgar
Allen Poe, popularised by Arthur Conan Doyle, and perfected by
Agatha Christie. WIthin a few pages, a clue can be discovered,
divulged, and its significance determined: all else is mere
embellishment. Featuring stories by: Doug Allyn, Colin Barrett,
Jerome Charyn, Michael Connelly, Susan Frith, Tom Larsen, Sean
Marciniak, Stefon Mears, Keith Lee Morris, Gwen Mullins, Jo Nesbo,
Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Reed, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Anna Scotti,
Ginny Swart, Ellen Tremiti, Joseph S. Walker, Colson Whitehead, and
Michael Wiley - plus a bonus vintage story from the annals of
mystery fiction, written over a century in the past.
Twenty of the best mystery short stories of the year, from Michael
Connelly, Jo Nesbo, Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead, and many
more in this crime connoisseur's collection. Under the auspices of
New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The
Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist
Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara
Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and
most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in
one entertaining volume. The classic mystery tale will be familiar
to aficionados and casual readers alike: it was invented by Edgar
Allen Poe, popularised by Arthur Conan Doyle, and perfected by
Agatha Christie. Within a few pages, a clue can be discovered,
divulged, and its significance determined: all else is mere
embellishment. Featuring stories by: Doug Allyn, Colin Barrett,
Jerome Charyn, Michael Connelly, Susan Frith, Tom Larsen, Sean
Marciniak, Stefon Mears, Keith Lee Morris, Gwen Mullins, Jo Nesbo,
Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Reed, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Anna Scotti,
Ginny Swart, Ellen Tremiti, Joseph S. Walker, Colson Whitehead, and
Michael Wiley – plus a bonus vintage story from the annals of
mystery fiction, written over a century ago.
In this spellbinding collection, Sara Paretsky showcases her
extraordinary talents with fourteen short stories, including one
new V.I. story and seven other classics featuring the indomitable
detective. 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'. 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.
'Forty years since her debut, Indemnity Only, Sara Paretsky's
social conscience burns brighter than ever . . . the cracking pace
maintains the intrigue and tension . . . Further proof, if any were
needed, that Paretsky is a giant of modern American crime' TIMES
ONLINE On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I.
Warshawski's dogs lead her on a mad chase that ends when they find
a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The
girl only regains consciousness long enough to utter one enigmatic
word. V.I. helps bring her to a hospital, but not long after, she
vanishes before anyone can discover her identity. As V.I. attempts
to find her, the detective uncovers an ugly consortium of Chicago
power brokers and mobsters who are prepared to kill the girl before
VI can save her. And soon it becomes clear that V.I.'s own life is
in jeopardy as well. Told against the backdrop of a city emerging
from its pandemic lockdown, OVERBOARD lays bare the dark secrets
and corruption buried in Chicago's neighbourhoods in masterly
fashion.
In this spellbinding collection, Sara Paretsky showcases her
extraordinary talents with fourteen short stories, including one
new V.I. story and seven other classics featuring the indomitable
detective. 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'. 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.
|
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Foreword by Manuel Komroff; Afterword by Sara Paretsky
2
|
R272
R242
Discovery Miles 2 420
Save R30 (11%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
Dostoyevskys masterpiece introduces a world filled with greed,
passion, depravity, and complex moral issues, as three brothers
become involved in the brutal murder of their own father. This
edition features an Afterword by bestselling author Sara Peretsky.
Revised reissue.
'Forty years since her debut, Indemnity Only, Sara Paretsky's
social conscience burns brighter than ever . . . the cracking pace
maintains the intrigue and tension . . . Further proof, if any were
needed, that Paretsky is a giant of modern American crime' TIMES
ONLINE On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I.
Warshawski's dogs lead her on a mad chase that ends when they find
a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The
girl only regains consciousness long enough to utter one enigmatic
word. V.I. helps bring her to a hospital, but not long after, she
vanishes before anyone can discover her identity. As V.I. attempts
to find her, the detective uncovers an ugly consortium of Chicago
power brokers and mobsters who are prepared to kill the girl before
VI can save her. And soon it becomes clear that V.I.'s own life is
in jeopardy as well. Told against the backdrop of a city emerging
from its pandemic lockdown, OVERBOARD lays bare the dark secrets
and corruption buried in Chicago's neighbourhoods in masterly
fashion.
The Chicago lakefront is one of America's urban wonders. The ribbon
of high rise luxury apartment buildings along the Lake Michigan
shore has few, if any, rivals nationwide for sustained
architectural significance. This historic confluence of site,
money, style, and development lies at the heart of the updated
edition of Neil Harris's Chicago Apartments: A Century and Beyond
of Lakefront Luxury. The book features more than 100 buildings,
stretching from south to north and across more than a century, each
with its own special combination of design choice, floor plans, and
background story. Harris, with the assistance of Teri J. Edelstein,
proves to be an affable and knowledgeable tour guide, guiding us
through dozens of buildings, detailing a host of inimitable
development histories, design choices, floor plans, and more along
the way. Of particular note are recent structures on the Chicago
River and south of the Loop that are proposing new definitions of
comfort and extravagance. Featuring nearly 350 stunning images and
a foreword by renowned Chicago author Sara Paretsky, this new
edition of Chicago Apartments offers a wide-ranging look inside
some of the Windy City's most magnificent abodes.
On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I.
Warshawski's dogs lead her on a mad chase that ends when they find
a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The
girl only regains consciousness long enough to utter one enigmatic
word. V.I. helps bring her to a hospital, but not long after, she
vanishes before anyone can discover her identity. As V.I. attempts
to find her, the detective uncovers an ugly consortium of Chicago
power brokers and mobsters who are prepared to kill the girl.
before VI can save her. And now V.I.'s own life is in jeopardy as
well. Told against the backdrop of a city emerging from its
pandemic lockdown, OVERBOARD lays bare Chicago's neighbours and
their secrets in masterly fashion.
International bestselling author Sara Paretsky selects the twenty
best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Michael
Connelly, Jo Nesbo, Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead, and more
in this crime connoisseur's collection. Under the auspices of New
York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The
Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist
Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara
Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and
most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in
one entertaining volume. The classic mystery tale will be familiar
to aficionados and casual readers alike: it was invented by Edgar
Allen Poe, popularised by Arthur Conan Doyle, and perfected by
Agatha Christie. WIthin a few pages, a clue can be discovered,
divulged, and its significance determined: all else is mere
embellishment. Featuring stories by: Doug Allyn, Colin Barrett,
Jerome Charyn, Michael Connelly, Susan Frith, Tom Larsen, Sean
Marciniak, Stefon Mears, Keith Lee Morris, Gwen Mullins, Jo Nesbo,
Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Reed, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Anna Scotti,
Ginny Swart, Ellen Tremiti, Joseph S. Walker, Colson Whitehead, and
Michael Wiley - plus a bonus vintage story from the annals of
mystery fiction, written over a century in the past.
'A novel full of surprises... It's vintage Paretsky, and hard to
put down' - The Sunday Times Named Top 10 Thriller of 2020 by
Kirkus Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, but V.I. Warshawski
knows its politics: "Pay to Play". Money changes hands in the
middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been
replaced by billion-dollar projects. Private investigator V.I. gets
pulled into one of these clandestine deals when her impetuous
goddaughter Bernie tries to rescue a famed singer-songwriter, now
living on the streets. Thanks to Bernie, V.I. finds herself in the
path of some developers whose negotiating strategy is simple: they
bulldoze - or kill - any obstacle in their way. Questions pile up
almost as fast as the dead bodies. When she tries to answer them,
the detective finds a terrifying conspiracy stretching from
Chicago's parks to a cover-up of the dark chapters in the American
government's interference in South American politics. Before finds
answer, V.I. will be pushed closed to breaking point. People who
pay to play take no prisoners.
A dark, taut psychological thriller by queen of crime, Margery
Allingham, featuring an introduction by the New York Times
bestselling author of detective fiction, Sara Paretsky. Part of the
Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound,
pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers.
These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book
lover. Set in the atmospheric midst of a London 'pea souper', The
Tiger in the Smoke is Margery Allingham's most sophisticated Golden
Age crime novel, in which the darkness of the down-at-heel city
fades against a piercing portrait of pure evil. An impenetrable fog
has descended on the streets of post-war London and, lurking in the
shadows, a violent murderer is on the rampage. Gentleman detective,
Albert Campion, is on the trail of a mysterious man posing as the
dead husband of a war widow with a wealthy new fiance, but his
expedition into the city's criminal underworld reveals something
far more sinister than blackmail . . .
This is a brilliant exploration of the writer's art, by the
bestselling author of the V. I. Warshawski novels. In this powerful
new book, Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and
literary dissent that have informed her life and work, against the
unparallelled repression of free speech and thought in the USA
today. In tracing the writer's difficult journey from silence to
speech, she turns to her childhood and youth in rural Kansas, and
brilliantly evokes Chicago - the city with which she has become
indelibly associated - from her arrival during the civil-rights
struggle in the mid-1960s to her most extraordinary literary
creation, the south-side detective V. I. Warshawski. Paretsky
traces the emergence of V. I. Warshawski from the shadows of the
loner detectives that stalk the mean streets of Dashiell Hammett
and Raymond Chandler's novels, and in the process explores American
individualism, the failure of the American dream and the resulting
dystopia. Both memoir and meditation, "Writing in an Age of
Silence" is a compelling exploration of the writer's art and
daunting responsibility in the face of the assault on US civil
liberties post-9/11.
Crime writer Sara Paretsky is known the world over for her
acclaimed series of mysteries starring Chicago private investigator
V. I. Warshawski, now in its seventeenth installment. Paretsky's
work has long been inflected with history--for her characters the
past looms large in the present--and in her decades-long career,
she has been recognized for transforming the role of women in
contemporary crime fiction. What's less well-known is that before
Paretsky began her writing career, she earned a PhD in history from
the University of Chicago with a dissertation on moral philosophy
and religion in New England in the early and mid-nineteenth
century. Now, for the first time, fans of Paretsky can read that
earliest work, Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing. Paretsky here
analyzes attempts by theologians at Andover Seminary, near Boston,
to square and secure Calvinist religious beliefs with emerging
knowledge from history and the sciences. She carefully shows how
the open-minded scholasticism of these theologians paradoxically
led to the weakening of their intellectual credibility as
conventional religious belief structures became discredited, and
how this failure then incited reactionary forces within Calvinism.
That conflict between science and religion in the American past is
of interest on its face, but it also sheds light on contemporary
intellectual battles. Rounding out the book, leading religious
scholar Amanda Porterfield provides an afterword discussing where
Paretsky's work fits into the contemporary study of religion. And
in a sobering--sometimes shocking--preface, Paretsky paints a
picture of what it was like to be a female graduate student at the
University of Chicago in the 1970s. A treat for Paretsky's many
fans, this book offers a glimpse of the development of the mind
behind the mysteries.
'Who're you working for then, Warshawski?' 'My cousin.' 'Boom Boom?
He's dead.' 'I know. That's why I'm working for him.' Boom Boom's
body was found floating near the docks, chewed up and spat out by a
ship's propeller. More like brother and sister than cousins, Vic
and Boom Boom looked out for each other. Boom Boom grew up to be an
ice hockey hero, and Vic a private eye. And now V.I. Warshawski
would like to know how, exactly, her cousin died . . .
|
Body Work (Paperback)
Sara Paretsky
|
R330
R283
Discovery Miles 2 830
Save R47 (14%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
The last thing V.I. Warshawski expects when she shows up at
Chicago's Club Gouge is that she'd wind up cradling a dying
performance artist in an alley. A PTSD-stricken soldier is presumed
guilty of the murder, but it's up to V.I. to find out what kinds of
shady activities are really happening. Available in a tall Premium
Edition.
Meeting an anonymous client on a sizzling summer night is asking
for trouble. Especially when the client lies and tells V.I.
Warshawski he's the prominent banker John Thayer, looking for his
son's missing girlfriend. But V.I. soon discovers the real John
Thayer's son - and he's dead. As V.I. begins to question her
mysterious client's motives, she sinks deeper into Chicago's darker
side: a world of gangsters, insurance fraud and contract killings.
And while she must concentrate on saving the life of someone she
has never met, it becomes clear that she is in danger of losing her
own.
'A novel full of surprises... It's vintage Paretsky, and hard to
put down' - The Sunday Times Top 10 Thriller of 2020 (The
Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews) Chicago is the city of broad
shoulders, but V.I. Warshawski knows its politics: "Pay to Play".
Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning,
buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects.
Private investigator V.I. gets pulled into one of these clandestine
deals when her impetuous goddaughter Bernie tries to rescue a famed
singer-songwriter, now living on the streets. Thanks to Bernie,
V.I. finds herself in the path of some developers whose negotiating
strategy is simple: they bulldoze - or kill - any obstacle in their
way. Questions pile up almost as fast as the dead bodies. When she
tries to answer them, the detective finds a terrifying conspiracy
stretching from Chicago's parks to a cover-up of the dark chapters
in the American government's interference in South American
politics. Before finds answer, V.I. will be pushed closed to
breaking point. People who pay to play take no prisoners.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|