Sara Paretsky: Pay Dirt (IN PERSON)
Renowned mystery writer Sara Paretsky visits the American Writers Museum to discuss her new novel Pay Dirt. This is the 23rd book in the V.I. Warshawski series, the original “female private detective,” who finds herself in Kansas investigating a case with roots that go back to the American Civil War, plunging the reader into a conflict that is splitting today’s schools, libraries and legislatures into warring camps: how do we address the history of race in the United States? Books will be available for purchase and Paretsky will sign them following the program.
This is an in-person program at the American Writers Museum. This program will also be livestreamed, and you can register for the link to the online broadcast here.
More about Pay Dirt:
V.I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her intelligence, her humor, her unflinching courage, and her love of good coffee. But even the strongest people sometimes need a break to recharge, so her friends send her to Kansas for a weekend of college basketball where Angela, one of her protégées, is playing. And that’s where trouble finds V.I.
Sabrina, one of Angela’s roommates, disappears and V.I. agrees to try to find her. Finding a missing person in a city where she knows few people and doesn’t have her trusted contacts is hard, but not as hard as the brutally negative reaction to the detective from some of the locals. When V.I. finds Sabrina close to death in a remote house, she lands herself in the FBI’s crosshairs and faces a violent online backlash. The men running the county’s opioid distribution are also not happy.
Discovering a dead body in the same house a few days later, V.I. is pitched headlong into a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War. She finds that 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 never intended to play, before the clock runs down.
Praise for Pay Dirt:
“V.I. Warshawski is one of my all-time favorite investigators. Doesn’t get any better than this!”
— Lisa Gardner
“Sara Paretsky is a legend… If you haven’t read her yet, now is the time.”
— Harlan Coben
“Legendary V.I. Warshawski is as dogged and ferocious as ever. So is Sara Paretsky, who is at the top of her crime novel game.”
— C.J. Box
A Chicago-based author, SARA PARETSKY is one of only four living writers to have received both the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain.