Fire Sale

Name: Fire Sale
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Sara Paretsky
ISBN: 9798897568710

Author: Sara Paretsky

Series: V.I. Warshawski

Narrator: Sandra Burr

Unabridged: 14 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/22/2025

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Suspense & Thriller, Crime, Hard-boiled

Synopsis

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Takes off with a bang—literally … V.I. remains a paragon among PIs, and Fire Sale is one of Paretsky’s best books yet.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch A conscience can weigh a PI down more than the heaviest firearm—and get her into more trouble too. It’s that nagging conscience that makes V.I. Warshawski agree to fill in as coach for the girls’ basketball team at her South Chicago alma mater—which in turn leads her to the headquarters of By-Smart, the global retail empire where V.I. hopes to get some desperately needed funds for the struggling squad. But conscience seems to be in short supply at By-Smart … with the exception of Billy Bysen, the earnest teenage grandson of the chain’s gruff, tightfisted founder. And when Billy disappears—along with a mysterious document much desired by By-Smart’s management team—V.I. is hurled onto a twisted, body-strewn path that runs through Chicago’s dirtiest places and reveals some of its dirtiest secrets …

About Sara Paretsky

Sara Paretsky is the author of the bestselling V. I. Warshawski novels, including, most recently, Bleeding Kansas. Paretsky is the winner of many awards, including the Cartier Diamond Dagger award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers' Association. She lives in Chicago.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on April 24, 2020

Book Review 3+ out of 5 stars for Fire Sale, the 12th book in the mystery and thriller "VI Warshawski" series, written in 2005 by Sara Paretsky. I really enjoy this series, and Paretsky's style is quite conducive to my reading habits and approach. I love the characters, the plot and the s......more

Goodreads review by John on May 25, 2023

Rich people get away with murder. A billionaire’s family who run Buy Smart or a Walmart empire. They are of course Christians but penny pinching ones. Low wages, shoddy benefits and racist in the bargain. However, Billy the grandson is an anomaly and becomes involved in a relationship with a young M......more

Goodreads review by Scott on July 22, 2013

Balancing social commentary with a riveting story can be a difficult challenge for some authors, but a few of them manage to succeed at it. Sara Paretsky, a grande dame of the private eye genre, is one of those authors who manages to do it well. In her novel "Fire Sale", Paretsky's beloved private ey......more

Goodreads review by Anne (Booklady) on October 25, 2013

It is always a hit or miss with Sara Paretsky's V I Warshawski. I understand that most authors are Liberal and I am not. That said, I like a good story. And if the author inserts her/his views into the protagonist, I don't mind those views if it is pertinent to the character and to the storyline. An......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on August 15, 2009

Another page-turner from Sara Paretsky. I found this one a little hard to get into. However, from around half-way in I really couldn't put it down. The main character, V.I. Warshawski, is so abrasive, that I really have to be in a certain mood to be able to cope with the language and the violence. Tha......more