Critical Mass - Abridged

Indemnity Only

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No

In this gripping adventure — the first V.I. Warshawski mystery — America’s top private eye is tossed into a dangerous adventure when a seemingly straightforward assignment becomes complicated and deadly. Hired by a man who calls himself John Thayer, V.I.’s assignment is to find Thayer’s son Peter’s missing girlfriend. But when V.I. Finds young... Read more »

Deadlock

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No

Deadlock, V. I. Warshawski’s second case, involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry. Once again the subject is murder — this time the “accidental death” of Boom-Boom Warshawski, an ex-hockey star and V. I.’s beloved cousin, who fell — or was pushed — off a rain-slicked pier on Chicago’s busy waterfront. Convinced that Boom-Boom was in fact... Read more »

Killing Orders

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No

Killing Orders, V.I. Warshawski’s third adventure, starts when her great-aunt Rosa summons the detective to her cold suburban home. Rosa made V.I.’s childhood miserable and the detective resents the command to help her aunt prove she didn't embezzle five million dollars from a local Dominican priory. All hell breaks loose when a mysterious... Read more »

Bitter Medicine

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No

Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski knows from the start that Consuelo Alvarado's baby is trouble. Consuelo is sixteen. Diabetic. And the daughter of a friend. When she goes into labor too early, even V. I.'s wild drive to get her to the hospital can't save either Consuelo or her child. Soon V.I. is investigating possible malpractice at the... Read more »

Bitter Medicine - Abridged

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Sandra Burr
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Chicago private eye V. I. Warshawski knows from the start that Consuelo Alvarado's baby is trouble. Consuelo is sixteen. Diabetic. And the daughter of a friend. When she goes into labor too early, even V. I.'s wild drive to get her to the hospital can't save either Consuelo or her child. Soon V. I. is investigating possible malpractice at the... Read more »

Blood Shot

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 12 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No

V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to her old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promise is something she always keeps. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and a problem -- after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. But when V.I. starts probing into the past, she not only finds out where all... Read more »

Burn Marks

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 13 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No

“Victoria, sweetie, you look terrific!”

With those words—and the sour yeasty smell of stale beer—Elena, V.I. Warshawski’s derelict aunt, re-enters her niece’s life at three in the morning. Burned out of her SRO hotel, Elena has turned to V.I. for a place to stay. V.I. vows that it will be a short visit and uses some old political contacts to... Read more »

Guardian Angel

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 14 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No

When a neighboring eighty-year-old dog owner turns up floating facedown in a canal shortly after an argument with a yuppie couple, V. I. Warshawski begins an investigation.

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Tunnel Vision

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 17 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

Stubbornness has landed private eye V.I. Warshawski in big trouble at her Chicago office. With her grand old Loop building set to be razed, she's become a hold-out tenant amid frayed wiring and scary, empty corridors. Then she finds a homeless woman with three kids in the basement, and before she can rescue them, they disappear. Worst of all,... Read more »

Total Recall

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Sandra Burr
Length: 15 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No

In Total Recall, Sara Paretsky brings together several disparate plots in one gripping story. This powerfully suspenseful novel confronts the machinations of a vast and corrupt industry that trades on the victims of Nazi terrorism; the strange and dubious phenomenon of "recovered memory;" and a personal story that brings V. I. Warshawski into... Read more »

Blacklist

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Sandra Burr
Length: 15 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

V. I. Warshawski explores secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations in this New York Times bestselling novel from one of the most compelling writers in American crime fiction...

“A thoughtful, high-tension mystery.”—The Washington Post Book World

“A genuinely exciting and disturbing thriller.”—Chicago Tribune

As a favor to her most... Read more »

Fire Sale

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Sandra Burr
Length: 14 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

V. I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V. I. takes over coaching duties of the girls’ basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms, who inevitably draw the detective into their family... Read more »

Hardball

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 14 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

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 Lamont Gadsden, a man who’s been missing for four decades, a search that she figured would be futile turns... Read more »

Body Work - Abridged

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes

“The thing about Sara Paretsky is, she’s tough—not because she observes the bone-breaker conventions of the private-eye genre but because she doesn’t flinch from examining old social injustices others might find too shameful (and too painful) to dig up.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Doctors take days off—why not PIs?” V.I. Warshawski demands.... Read more »

Body Work

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No

“The thing about Sara Paretsky is, she’s tough—not because she observes the bone-breaker conventions of the private-eye genre but because she doesn’t flinch from examining old social injustices others might find too shameful (and too painful) to dig up.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Doctors take days off—why not PIs?” V.I. Warshawski demands.... Read more »

Breakdown

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 14 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world. When tweens in Chicago’s Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. The girls include daughters of some of... Read more »

Breakdown - Abridged

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world. When tweens in Chicago’s Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. The girls include daughters of some of... Read more »

Critical Mass

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 17 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

The brilliant V. I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. “Both Paretsky and the sharp-tongued justice-seeker, V. I. Warshawski, remain formidable. . . . V. I. reigns as crime fiction’s spiky, headstrong warrior woman of... Read more »

Critical Mass - Abridged

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 17 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes

The brilliant V. I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes.

“Both Paretsky and the sharp-tongued justice-seeker, V. I. Warshawski, remain formidable.... V. I. reigns as crime fiction’s spiky, headstrong warrior woman of... Read more »

Brush Back

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Karen Peakes
Length: 13 hours
Abridged: No

Chicago’s V. I. Warshawski confronts crooked politicians and buried family secrets in the gritty new novel from New York Times–bestselling author Sara Paretsky.

No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few she’d be happy to avoid. High on that list is tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet that’s... Read more »

Windy City Blues

By: Sara Paretsky
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No

It’s strictly Friends & Family as V.I. Warshawski, “the detective mystery fans have been waiting for” (Time), makes return appearances in a collection of stories that bring new meaning to “ties that bind.” Decked out in her silk shirts and no-nonsense attitude, V.I. is out to make a living—by the skin of her teeth.

In “Grace Notes,” V.I. has... Read more »