{"product_id":"hard-time-a-v-i-warshawski-novel-9780440224709","title":"Hard Time: A V. I. Warshawski Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - \"When it comes to creating character, evoking place, and writing crackling and convincing dialogue, Sara Paretsky has no peer--and \u003ci\u003eHard Time\u003c\/i\u003e proves it once again.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Terrific . . . expertly plotted . . . This book [is] her best.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an instant, the lives of two women collided. One was behind the wheel of a Trans Am she liked to drive too fast. The other was lying in the road, dying an agonizing death. When Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski got out of her car to look at the woman she almost hit, she began a long, harrowing descent into a world of shadowy secrets and tangled lives--and into the darkest heart of her city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHard Time\u003c\/i\u003e, which heralds the triumphant return of the much-loved heroine V.I. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky revisits the gritty urban landscape she illuminates with brilliant compassion and vivid color. For as V.I. unravels the mystery of a battered and discarded woman, she moves through circles of the rich and the troubled, into the bitter home of a powerful Chicago family, into the pampered world of a TV star, and behind the razor wire of a women's prison. What V.I. finds is a web of conspiracy--and explosive secrets hidden in the darkest places of all. . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"You'll feel handcuffed to this book until you've finished--probably at 3 a.m.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780440224709\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.66h x 4.18w x 1.21d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond the Cover Author Interv\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2000 pg. 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e32474 \/ Hard Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.6 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 23\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sara Paretsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44561416585397,"sku":"9780440224709","price":6.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_957eba24-4abf-4592-9f06-67535a58e418.jpg?v=1723525347","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hard-time-a-v-i-warshawski-novel-9780440224709","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}