HARDBALL, Kansas native Sara Paretsky’s newest V. I. Warshawski novel is due out September 22, 2009. Call us to hold a copy of the book for you (785-749-3300).
Sara will be at the Lawrence Public Library for a reading and signing co-sponsored by The Raven Book Store on Friday, September 25th, to launch HARDBALL. The event starts at 7PM. See our events page for more information.
The publisher describes HARDBALL:
Chicago politics-past, present, and future-take center stage in New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky’s brilliant new V. I. Warshawski novel.
Chicago’s unique brand of ball is sixteen-inch slow pitch, played in leagues all over the city for more than a century. But in politics, in business, and in law enforcement, the game is hardball.
When V. I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who’s been missing for four decades, a search that she figured would be futile becomes lethal. Old skeletons from the city’s racially charged history, as well as haunting family secrets-her own and those of the elderly sisters who hired her-rise up to brush her back from the plate with a vengeance. A young cousin whom she’s never met arrives from Kansas City to work on a political campaign; a nun who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. dies without revealing crucial evidence; and on the city’s South Side, people spit when she shows up. Afraid to learn that her adored father might have been a bent cop, V. I. still takes the investigation all the way to its frightening end.
The New and Forthcoming Mysteries list for May through September 2010 has been posted on The Raven’s website. Check it out to see if your favorite authors have new titles coming out. Some of our favorites are Louise Penny (BURY YOUR DEAD–September), Nevada Barr (BURN–August), Rhys Bowen (ROYAL BLOOD–September), Andrea Camilleri (TRACK OF SAND–October), and Tana French (FAITHFUL PLACE–July). Click here for list.
