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Valor Seguro

Valor Seguro( )
Author: Paretsky, Sara
Series title:Negra Zeta Ser.
ISBN:978-84-9872-007-5
Publication Date:Dec 2009
Publisher:Ediciones B
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $13.95
Book Description:

This new adventure of the private detective V.L. "Vic" Warshawski begins at a conference in Chicago, where angry protesters are demanding the return of the property they seized during the Nazi Germany. Suddenly, a troubled man gets up to tell the story of their childhood shattered by the Holocaust ... A story that will have devastating consequences for Lotty Herschel, the intimate friend and mentor of V.L. who was only nine years when he emigrated from Austria to England, along with a...
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Book Details
Pages:450
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
Fiction / City Life
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.8 x 7.7 x 0.9 Inches
Book Weight:0.55 Pounds
Author Biography
Paretsky, Sara (Author)
Author Sara Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa on June 8, 1947. She received a degree in political science from the University of Kansas and ultimately completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago; her dissertation was entitled "The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War." She also earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. She married a professor of physics (University of Chicago).

The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is V.I. Warshawski, a female private investigator. V. I. Warshawsky shows a female detective succeeding a traditionally male role.

Paretsky has won numerous awards for her work including the Silver Dagger Award for Toxic Shock, the Gold Dagger award for Blacklist, and the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers Association.

Her title Brush Back made the New York Times Best Seller List in 2015.

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