Order of Sara Paretsky Books

Sara Paretsky is an American novelist of detective fiction, largely featuring female private investigator V.I. Warshawski. Paretsky’s contributions to crime fiction include writing a female character who breaks all of the rules of what a female detective is “supposed” to be and transcending the typical labels.

Sara Paretsky had her first novel published in 1982, which was Indemnity Only. The frequency of her novels are typically about one every two years – sometimes more, sometimes less. Below is a list of all of Sara Paretsky’s books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of V.I. Warshawski Books

Indemnity Only	(1982)
Deadlock	(1984)
Killing Orders	(1985)
Bitter Medicine	(1987)
Blood Shot	(1988)
Burn Marks	(1990)
Guardian Angel	(1992)
Tunnel Vision	(1994)
Hard Time	(1999)
Total Recall	(2001)
Blacklist	(2003)
Fire Sale	(2005)
Hardball	(2009)
Body Work	(2010)
Photo Finish	(2011)
Breakdown	(2012)
Critical Mass	(2013)
Brush Back	(2015)
Fallout	(2017)
Shell Game	(2018)
Dead Land	(2020)

Publication Order of V.I. Warshawski Collections

Windy City Blues

(1991)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Ghost Country	(1998)
Bleeding Kansas	(2007)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

A Taste of Life and Other Stories

(1990)

Publication Order of Anthologies

Beastly Tales	(1989)
A Woman's Eye	(1991)
Female Sleuths: A Mystery Collection	(1993)
Women on the Case	(1996)
Sisters on the Case: Celebrating Twenty Years of Sisters in Crime	(2007)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Writing in an Age of Silence

(2007)

Notes: Blood Shot was published in the United Kingdom as Toxic Shock. Windy City Blues was also published as V.I. for Short.

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