A Woman's Eye
Stories
Published on 14. October 2009
464 pages
978-0-307-42565-2 (ISBN)
Description
Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women writers in this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery fiction.
The voices here include professional crime solvers who take you from the mean streets of V.I. Warshawski's Chicago in a case of music and murder... to the California freeway where Kinsey Millhone's beloved VW skids into a shooting... to the gang-held turf of Sharon says mum's the word. And then there are mothers, grandmothers, battered wives, and social workers -- ordinary women in extraordinary situations whose voices reveal contemporary life as seen through a woman's eye. From the opening tale of a girl down-and-out in London and what she steals from a corpse... to the final story of a summer vacation in the Berkshires, complete with romance and sudden death... this unique collection brings us great mystery writing that engages both our intellects and our hearts.
The voices here include professional crime solvers who take you from the mean streets of V.I. Warshawski's Chicago in a case of music and murder... to the California freeway where Kinsey Millhone's beloved VW skids into a shooting... to the gang-held turf of Sharon says mum's the word. And then there are mothers, grandmothers, battered wives, and social workers -- ordinary women in extraordinary situations whose voices reveal contemporary life as seen through a woman's eye. From the opening tale of a girl down-and-out in London and what she steals from a corpse... to the final story of a summer vacation in the Berkshires, complete with romance and sudden death... this unique collection brings us great mystery writing that engages both our intellects and our hearts.
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Paretsky
A Woman's Eye
Book
12/1993
Random House Value Publishing
€25.51
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Sara Paretsky
A Woman's Eye
Book
08/1991
Delacorte Press
€37.48
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Person
Sara Paretsky is the author of many novels, including her V. I. Warshawski series, which began with Indemnity Only. She lives in Chicago.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Eye of a Woman: An Introduction
- Lucky Dip by Liza Cody
- "Full Circle" by Sue Grafton
- Benny's Space by Marcia Muller
- The Puppet by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
- The Scar by Nancy Pickard
- Murder Without a Text by Amanda Cross
- Discards by Faye Kellerman
- Getting to Know You by Antonia Fraser
- A Match Made in Hell by Julie Smith
- Theft of the Poet by Barbara Wilson
- Death and Diamonds by Susan Dunlap
- Kill the Man for Me by Mary Wings
- The Cutting Edge by Marilyn Wallace
- Looking for Thelma by Gillian Slovo
- Deborah's Judgment by Margaret Maron
- A Man's Home by Shelley Singer
- Her Good Name by Carolyn G. Hart
- Ghost Station by Carolyn Wheat
- Where Are You, Monica? by Maria Antonia Oliver
- Settled Score by Sara Paretsky
- That Summer at Quichiquois by Dorothy B. Hughes
