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 / Toxic Shock | (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) | |
Breakdown | (2012) | |
Critical Mass | (2013) | |
Brush Back | (2015) | |
Fallout | (2017) | |
Shell Game | (2018) | |
Dead Land | (2020) | |
Overboard | (2022) | |
Pay Dirt | (2024) |
Publication Order of V.I. Warshawski Short Stories/Novellas
Photo Finish | (2011) | |
Wildcat | (2017) | |
Death on the Edge | (2018) |
Publication Order of V.I. Warshawski Collections
Windy City Blues | (1995) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Ghost Country | (1988) | |
Bleeding Kansas | (2007) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Taste of Life | (2017) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
A Taste of Life and Other Stories | (1995) | |
Love & Other Crimes: Stories | (2020) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Writing In An Age Of Silence | (2007) | |
Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing | (2016) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Eyes Have It | (1984) | |
Mean Streets | (1986) | |
Beastly Tales | (1989) | |
City Sleuths and Tough Guys | (1989) | |
Sisters in Crime 3 | (1990) | |
A Woman’s Eye | (1991) | |
1st Culprit | (1992) | |
Women of Mystery | (1992) | |
Deadly Allies | (1992) | |
Sisters In Crime 5 | (1992) | |
The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991 | (1992) | |
Female Sleuths | (1993) | |
The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1992 | (1993) | |
Great Mystery Series: Top Female Sleuths | (1993) | |
The New Mystery | (1993) | |
3rd Culprit | (1994) | |
Seventh Annual Collection | (1994) | |
The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1993 | (1994) | |
Bad Behavior | (1995) | |
Women on the Case | (1996) | |
Murder For Love | (1996) | |
First Cases, Volume 1 | (1996) | |
The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1995 | (1996) | |
Win, Lose or Die | (1996) | |
Mystery’s Most Wanted | (1997) | |
Women of Mystery III | (1998) | |
Crime After Crime | (1999) | |
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories | (2000) | |
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century | (2000) | |
Crime Story Collection | (2000) | |
Writers on Writing | (2001) | |
A Century of Great Suspense Stories | (2001) | |
The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction | (2004) | |
Sisters on the Case | (2007) | |
Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe | (2011) | |
Suspense Magazine December 2013 | (2013) | |
Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold | (2014) | |
Chicago Blues | (2014) | |
The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For | (2015) | |
Gary Phillips’ Hollis for Hire | (2018) | |
Bullets and Other Hurting Things: A Tribute to Bill Crider | (2021) | |
Crime Hits Home | (2022) | |
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 | (2022) |
Notes: Blood Shot was published in the United Kingdom as Toxic Shock. Windy City Blues was also published as V.I. for Short.