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'Killing Orders,' by Sarah Paretsky

Novel, 1986 Detective story set in Chicago, in which main protagonist VS Warshawski, is called to look into fraud and a web of individuals and organisations which lead into some pretty dark situations. This is a book which arguably strays a little further than it might in the workings of insurance and other means of financial practice and malpractice. The way Warshawski is drawn and acts like an…

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Tiszta Chicago - a 252. epizód

Hosszabb kihagyás után úgy döntöttünk, hogy visszatérünk az évekkel ezelőtt megkezdett utazós sorozatunkhoz, amelyben egy-egy számunkra érdekes helyhez kötődő könyveket, filmeket, sorozatokat ajánlunk. (Korábbi adásainkban volt már szó például New Yorkról, Párizsról, és az északi országokról is.) Legújabb célpontunk pedig Chicago – tartsatok velünk! Le is töltenéd? Popkult, csajok, satöbbi…

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Wed. April 3, 2024: Computer Issues, Rehearsals, and More Snow

image courtesy of  StartupStockPhotos via pixabay.com Wednesday, April 3, 2024 Waning Moon Mercury Retrograde Rainy/snowy and getting colder We have 10 inches of snow expected today into tomorrow. How was your holiday weekend? We have  a lot of catching up to do! Yesterday’s episode of LEGERDEMAIN: Episode 177: Defined Roles and Back Channels Shelley does not tolerate Vidor’s sexism,…

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All the books I read in 2024

Felicity -by Joyce Y. Ng Pacific Dream -by Vincent Lau Memento Amoris - by Anya Martin SACRED BODIES - by VER Here Be Monsters Bones In Fair Verona - by Val Wise by Val Wise Leaf Litter - Jarod K Anderson A Taste of Life - Sara Paretsky Autism Is Not a Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity - Jodie Hare Love, Pamela - by Pamela Anderson read by Pamela Anderson Cat Pictures Please - by Naomi Kritzer How to Hide an Empire - by Daniel Immerwahr read by Luis Moreno It Eats What Feeds It Vol. 1 - by Max Hoven, Aaron Crow illustrated by Gabriel Iumazark The Mushroom at the End of the World Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy - by Bill Griffith illustrated by Bill Griffith Palestine - by Joe Sacco illustrated by Joe Sacco An Age Of License - by Lucy Knisley illustrated by Lucy Knisley Disquiet - by Noah Van Sciver illustrated by Noah Van Sciver Collapse - by Vladislav M. Zubok read by David De Vries The Mere Future - by Sarah Schulman Postcards From Congo - by Edmund Trueman The Night Eaters #1: She Eats the Night - by Marjorie Liu illustrated by Sana Takeda The Night Eaters Book 2: Her Little Reapers - by Marjorie Liu illustrated by Sana Takeda Bandit - by Molly Brodak Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio - by Derf Backderf illustrated by Derf Backderf Womb City - by Tlotlo Tsamaase From Conflict to Community - by Gwendolyn Olton Ephemera: A Memoir - by Briana Loewinsohn illustrated by Briana Loewinsohn This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America - by Navied Mahdavian illustrated - by Navied Mahdavian Misnatched - By Anne Camlin Illustrated by Isadora Zeferino 12 Rules for Strife - Jedd Sparrow and Sam Wallman Legalization Nation - Brian Box Brown My Monster Girlfriend - Smut Peddler All the Violet Tiaras - Jean Menzies Here - Richard McGuire Far Distant - A Liang Chan Spores - Joshua Barkman Taproot -Keezy Young Dreamtoons - Jesse Reklaw Stages of Rot - Linnea Sterte

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Windy City Blues by Sara Paretsky

Windy City Blues by Sara Paretsky. V. I. Warshawski Stories (V.I. Warshawski Novels Book 18) In “Grace Notes,” V.I. has barely finished her morning coffee when she sees an ad in the paper asking for information about her own mother, long dead. The paper leads V.I. to her newfound Italian cousin Vico, who’s looking for music composed by their great-grandmother. What’s the score? Clearly it’s…

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Special Guest - Lawrence E. Rothstein - Author of Venetian Bind #AuthorInterview / #Giveaway

Venetian Bind by Lawrence E. Rothstein I am happy to welcome Lawrence E. Rothstein to Escape With Dollycas today! Hi Lawrence, Please tell us a little bit about yourself. I call writing mysteries my third career. I am retired from being a lawyer and a university professor. After these retirements, I find myself busier than during my work life. In addition to writing, I play the clarinet in three musical groups, play tennis two to three times a week, cycle, and love to cook. What is the first book you remember reading? Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Princess of Mars What are you reading now? Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Gilded Lily What books have most inspired you? The mysteries of Rex Stout, Erle Stanley Gardner, Sara Paretsky, Linda Barnes, and Sue Grafton. Also the books of Umberto Eco. What made you decide you wanted to write mysteries? I love to read them and, as a university professor, I enjoyed writing hypothetical cases for my law courses. Do you have a special place where you like to write? I have an upstairs office in the middle of a large open room. I love to write there. Where do the ideas for your books come from? The news, other detective stories, cases I researched as a lawyer and professor, and my travels. Is there anything about writing you find most challenging? Carving out the time for writing with all of my other activities. In general, I am able to write about six hours per week. I am fortunate to have an excellent weekly writing group. In addition to their helpful critique and suggestions, this group requires that I have something to share with them each week. Our procedure is to have someone else read our work. I find that very helpful. What do you think makes a good story? A puzzle; a cerebral detective assisted by an active, street wise, intrepid leg person; humorous incidents; an intriguing locale; culinary delights. Which, of all your characters, do you think is the most like you? Kelan Su. Although she is much braver and more of a criminal investigation expert than I. What makes your books different from others out there in this genre? I hope that my inclusion of all the things I noted above that makes a good story distinguish my novels from many others in the genre. What’s next on the horizon for you? I have embarked on a series, the Tri-Star Investigations stories. I am in edits with my publisher for novel number two Ripped Genes. I have also started a third novel in the series The Tell-Tale Art. I hope to continue the series beyond these three. Thank you Lawrence for visiting today! ___ Keep reading for more information about Lawrence and his book, Venetian Bind. About Venetian Bind Venetian Bind Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting - Venice Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wild Rose Press (May 15, 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 236 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1509254153 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1509254156 Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CX5T3CP5 In Venetian Bind, Detective Marko Korb and his associate Kelan Su, a Chinese-American woman, must hunt down a murderer and prevent a devastating terrorist attack in the romantic city of Venice. Korb, a fat, egotistical, and brilliant detective, and Kelan Su, a former Chicago police officer, licensed attorney, and martial arts expert, arrive in Venice to investigate the murder of Stefan Pakulić, a former Serbian paramilitary leader and accused war criminal.The daughter of a Bosnian expat who had rescued Korb from Pakulić’s clutches during the war is a suspect in the killing. Korb is torn between finding the murderer and his sympathy for the Serbian’s killer—the Venetian bind. The investigation leads to Pakulić’s connection with Italian neo-fascists planning a terrorist action in Venice. It takes Korb’s genius and the intrepid sleuthing of Su to find the murderer, forestall the terrorist action, and protect the daughter of Korb’s rescuer. Venetian Bind by Lawrence E. Rothstein is the first book in the new cozy mystery series, Tri-Star Investigations. I enjoyed it so much! It’s filled with great characters and lots of mystery. ~Christy's Cozy Corners About Lawrence E. Rothstein I am a retired lawyer and university professor who has published in constitutional law, privacy law, political theory and labor law. Born and raised in Chicago, I am now residing with my wife and family in beautiful southern Rhode Island.  I have lived and traveled widely in Europe.  As an avid reader of crime fiction, I have always wanted to write detective novels. As a lover of food and cooking, I include many scrumptious meals and some recipes in my novel and on my website. 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Alredered Remembers Sara Paretsky, American author, on her birthday.

"Remember: there is no right way to write. There is only the way that works well for you."

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Bouchercon Honors Sara Paretsky

by K.P. Gresham The 54th Bouchercon National Mystery Convention in San Deigo honored Sara Paretsky with the David Thompson Memorial Special Service Award. This award honors the memory and contributions to the crime fiction community, and Sara Paretsky, a force of nature to be sure, certainly deserved this recognition. Bouchercon, the largest and oldest mystery fan convention in the world, is a…

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Also, real quick, I want to add that benson’s being a woman kind of adds to this—it compounds her sympathy with victims and often empathy for what’s going on in stories. She’s kind of on the edge of identifying with the people in her cases and with her fellow cops (especially as a woman in a male-dominated field)

being marginalized in this way definitely makes things interesting here!! (Marginalized detectives is my personal favorite area of detective fiction so maybe I’m biased.) But I’d argue she’s not Wholly outsider both practically (being a cop) and metaphorically (representing government modes of surveillance). It’s similar to a lot of the literature on Sara Paretsky’s books with their woman detective protagonist VI Warchowski (that is to say, insider/outsider whose outsidership is marginalized, but who still doesn’t really question the schema)

I think Joy Palmer has a good article on it so I’ll link it when I find it!

id love to hear ur thoughts on characters like Olivia benson and the rest of the svu gang in terms of the insider/outsider thing- while yes the law and order show/spinoffs are copaganda (not that that stops me from watching) but the way that olivia herself puts herself in these situations in order to gain that "outsider perspective" even tho she is on the inside (she got kidnapped for a few days in a couple episodes and that was her """off duty""") even in the show you see many times her and everyone else are constantly lied to by the people theyre trying to help for whatever reason (some justified, some not) idk i just love that show lol

Thank you so much for this!! I’ll admit that my really solid research expertise doesn’t extend into police procedurals, but I think I can probably still apply the same model, especially since I’ve seen the insider/outsider discourse applied generally by others!

I think Olivia Benson’s another “both, and.” A lot of procedurals of any kind (think grey’s anatomy) are about demystifying and humanizing characters who solve medical or criminal mysteries—that alone makes her more of an “insider” to us.

I’d argue that she’s probably MOSTLY an outsider character because her companionship in the police force lets her look in at crimes from a greater distance, but she wouldnt be a fan favorite (nor would she be an effective character) if she only looked in from the outside—this is the same reason characters on greys anatomy get sick. The instances you raised in your ask are all moments where she BECOMES an insider, or where the show makes sure to prove to us that she is one.

generally, I sorta disagree with looking at detectives as either insiders or outsiders to society, people, their community, etc—isolated or not, cops are people and carry the thoughts, biases, and connections of people into their work (especially because government is closely interconnected with these). This is what’s perpetually fascinating and frustrating about this genre!

I think a good rule of thumb is this: if you like a detective even a little, they’re probably an insider in some capacity

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2023 Sisters in Crime LA Anthology now available!

Entertainment to Die For, a Sisters in Crime Los Angeles anthology, features 18 suspenseful tales and an introduction by best-selling author Sara Paretsky. I am thrilled to have my contribution, "Destination Wedding," included!

Entertainment to Die For, a Sisters in Crime Los Angeles anthology, features stories by first-time authors and multi-published authors—all are killers (on the page, anyway). I’m looking forward to reading these 18 suspenseful tales and am thrilled to have my contribution, “Destination Wedding,” included! In “Destination Wedding,” Professor Molly and her best friend, biology professor Dr. Emma…

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Tues. March 26, 2024: When You Leave the House Without Coffee

Image courtesy of Engin Akyurt via pixabay.com Tuesday, March 26, 2024 Waning Moon Partly sunny and a little warmer How was your weekend? How’d you like the lunar eclipse? Today’s LEGERDEMAIN episode: Episode 175: The Seduction of Money When it comes to corruption, “follow the money” is a sensible philosophy. Legerdemain Serial link Legerdemain website Today’s DEADLY DRAMATICS…

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AUTHOR

EXTRAORDINAIRE

'There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe place to read after school, or moms with toddlers who want their babies to learn to read, can all come together and share in a great community resource.'

'I began wanting to create a detective who really turned the tables on that image of women, to know that you could have a sex life and not be a bad person. You could have a sex life and still solve your own problems. It was eight years from when I started having the fantasy that I was going to create such a detective to when I actually sat down and came up with V. I. Warshawski. It was a long, slow journey to come to a writing voice and do that character.'

'Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.'

'Write what you care about.'

Author Extraordinaire Sara Paretsky

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Dead Land by Sara Paretsky (2020)

(This review contains very general spoilers).

V.I. Warshawski is not your usual detective, and I love her for it. She’s a fierce, righteous crusader for social justice, with a strong sense of responsibility for everyone in her social circle. It’s that circle that drags her into investigations that promise no financial reward and incur the wrath of oligarchs. Dead Land is no exception. Vic’s goddaughter Bernie Fouchard is coaching a soccer team for underprivileged girls, which leads Vic to a fateful community meeting where the girls are being recognized. That community meeting plants the seeds for Vic’s investigation of two homicides, which have their roots in a corrupt “public-private” partnership to steal Chicago’s southern lakefront for the wealthy; this converges with the story of a homeless singer whose work Bernie loves, who survived a mass shooting that killed her lover, and had a breakdown following that. The melding of these stories creates a web involving Chilean oligarchs, a University of Chicago economist, a mass shooter in Kansas, prairie restorationists, a big multinational law firm, a small Chicago community group, a corrupt city official, and some of Vic’s oldest friends, especially Murray Ryerson. It’s a layered, complex plot, involving some injustices Vic can correct, others that run so deep they can only be exposed, and striking powerfully at Vic’s emotions (about her mother, about her friends, about her own detective work and her ethics) and mine. It’s what Paretsky does best.

She also does originality in her villains. Economists from the University of Chicago just aren’t used as villains in fiction enough. This is probably because they’re too cartoonish. Fiction seems to demand some level of nuance, unlike reality, which is free to be as black and white as it wants. The Chicago Boys didn’t go in for nuance when they allied with Pinochet. Personally, I prefer realistic villains, who often lack delicious ambiguity. So I appreciate Sara Paretsky for making them a villain here. The one slightly jarring note was that Vic didn’t know about them or the U.S. government’s role in Pinochet’s regime. You would think a politically aware, left-wing Chicago native, who has shown some awareness of things like the School of the Americas, would know about it. It’s not out of character, exactly—everyone has limits on their knowledge, and this is not common knowledge even in progressive circles. It was just an odd moment.

But the main draw of Paretsky’s novels, apart from the intricate plotting, is her relationships. Here, Bernie Fouchard and Murray Ryerson take center stage. Bernie is impetuous, passionate, uncompromising, energetic, and filled with the recklessness of youth, and thus prone to drawing Vic into trouble without losing Vic’s sympathy or ours. But Murray, Vic’s old friend—their friendship predates the series—one-time lover, and frequent ally, is the real star here. Though he’s a falling star at first: he’s compromised in his role at Global, but ultimately acts as a true investigator and pays the price for it. His relationship with Vic is given due weight, and it’s immensely satisfying to see him start to pull out of the hole he’s been in since Hard Time.

I also like how Paretsky has been expanding her setting beyond Chicago in recent books. Here, she takes Vic out to Kansas for a large portion of the investigation. She is helped by some of the local people, and at the same time treated with suspicion by many of them. And she has to deal with the unfamiliar local law enforcement—and the people pulling their strings. It’s a great addition of a new story factor, moving the plot along and giving texture to the world. I enjoy Vic in her element in Chicago, but it adds something to see her out of it.

A great Paretsky. I’d rank it very high on the list. I preferred it to the other recent offerings (Shell Game, Fallout, Brushback, Critical Mass) even though I enjoyed all of those, too.

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Fire Sale by Sara Paretsky

Fire Sale by Sara Paretsky. Book 12 of the V.I. Warshawski Series. A conscience can weigh a PI down more than the heaviest firearm—and get her into more trouble too. It’s that nagging conscience that makes V. I. Warshawski agree to fill in as coach for the girls’ basketball team at her South Chicago alma mater—which in turn leads her to the headquarters of By-Smart, the global retail empire where…

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September 21, 2022 (Wednesday)

"Killing Orders" by Sarah Paretsky | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I finished this 11 days ago but I've been swept by all the festivities that I barely had time to talk about this here and in my bookblr. Now that I'm here, I'd like to say that it was one fun ride. I didn't like the protagonist at first since she seemed a little to rude and sarcastic for my taste but I grew to love her as I read on and saw her different sides. She's like that family member who seems to always force you to do things you don't want to but you know is good for you. Haha! The story was interesting and I am a little guilty for including our little St. Niño in this photoset because of the main plot of having discord inside a Catholic church. Haha!

But yes, the story is a little long but I found the process V.I. Warshawski had as she went through all the clues and tragedies were interesting and I loved it.