![]() Paretsky is 60 now, with large, pale-blue eyes and VI's fondness for fine clothes and cappuccinos. Chicago is where I came of age and became a person, made a reputation for myself, and I didn't really want to go back to that," she says. "Not everything about living in Kansas was difficult, but it was a difficult part of my life. It took nearly 40 years before she felt strong enough to return home on a journey of the imagination. In many ways, Warshawski is the personification of Paretsky's escape from rural Kansas for life in the big city. ![]() ![]() ![]() But now she has changed direction, revisiting the geography of her troubled childhood for the first time in Bleeding Kansas.įor fans of the orphaned, and rather solitary, Warshawksi, who usually hunts killers against the gritty backdrop of Chicago, Bleeding Kansas might seem alien territory, full of farm families working in sorghum fields, milking sheds and attending church. Twelve crime novels later, Paretsky is a worldwide bestseller. ![]()
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