Hard Time

By Sara Paretsky

Book Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "When it comes to creating character, evoking place, and writing crackling and convincing dialogue, Sara Paretsky has no peer--and Hard Time proves it once again."--Chicago... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440224705
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Dell
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.1" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

Once More with Feeling

Once more Ms. Paretsky has given us a book peopled with characters that we can feel about. There are those who we can love, hate, feel sorry for. The story is great and is told in such a way that I did not want to put the book down. I wanted to keep reading to know what would happen to V. I. and the other characters.Beyond the story and characters is a tale that should raise the social consciousnous of the readers. ...

I really loved this book

I just want to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I like reading about the good fight V. I. is fighting and all the hardships she has to endure. My life is quite tame so that makes it all the more interesting for me to read about it in a book. I couldn't put this book down; I found it to be adventurous and suspenseful. I've read all the V. I. books and this one is my favorite. I'm so glad she's back!

A Real Surprise

I bought Hard Time on a whim having dimly remembered the Kathlene Turner movie. I was expecting a standard tough cookie woman detective novel and instead got a great read. The book starts off with VI almost running over the body of an "escaped" woman prisoner and rapidly develops into a complex web of Chicago politics, media scheming, and win at all costs capitalism. All without Paretsky losing her lightness of touch...

Taut Suspense Throughout

V.I. is not a detective out of the English drawing room style. She is an original, and as such will be appreciated or rejected by the degree that you look for originality in your mysteries. The plot is deliciously complicated, hard to anticipate, and moves along nicely. Although some will quibble that the whole thing is improbable, it could be made very probable with one small change in the motives of the killers. As...

I'll Forgive Her But She Better Not Abandon VI Again!

It's nice to finally have VI Warshawski back on the mystery scene. I'm sure it's a challenge for an author to stick with one genre year after year but VI had become such a central figure on the mystery scene that I was really angry with Paretsky for leaving her out of the picture for several years now. VI is in top form in Hard Time. Things have changed as we learn her relationship with Murray is much strained as a result...