{"product_id":"9780440224709","title":"Hard Time","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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Sara Paretsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Mass market (rack) paperback","offer_id":44683413815456,"sku":"9780440224709","price":5.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_68d2917c-2b4d-4665-b1c4-3d910cfac12e.jpg?v=1732225424","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780440224709","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}