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pronunciation:
[paretskee]
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| (1947– )
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| Writer of detective fiction, born in Ames, Iowa, USA. She studied at the University of Kansas (1967 BA) and the University of Chicago (1977 MA; 1977 PhD), and became a publications manager for Urban Research Corp (1971–4), a free-lance business writer (1974–7), and an advertising and direct-mail marketing manager (1977–85) before writing full time from 1985. All her novels are set in and around Chicago, and feature V I Warshawski, a female hard-boiled private detective. Her first Warshawski novel, Indemnity Only, appeared in 1982. Many of her books such as Bitter Medicine (1987) and Burn Marks (1990), explore social issues. Ghost Country (1998) does not feature her heroine, though she returned to Warshawski in Hard Time (1999). Blood Shot (1988) is considered by critics to be her best work. She is a founder of Sisters in Crime, which promotes the work of other women writers of detective fiction. |
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