will be ahead of the game if she gets out alive. In a case that forces her to go head-to-head with one of the world’s largest providers of private security and prison services, a case that exposes dark hidden truths behind the razzle-dazzle of the entertainment industry, V.I. soon learns that her Good Samaritan act will drop her squarely in a boiling intrigue. almost runs over a woman lying in the street. On her way home from a party celebrating Murray’s debut, V.I. Reporter Murray Ryerson, V.I.’s longtime friend and sometime rival, manages to reinvent himself as the host of a television show on Global’s network. Multimedia conglomerate Global Entertainment has purchased the Chicago Herald-Star, forcing the paper’s staff to scramble to stay employed. Hard Time is the work of a master–a riveting novel of suspense that is indisputably Paretsky’s best V.I. Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full-length appearance since 1994’s Tunnel Vision.
Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky’s incomparable character V.I.
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