In this spellbinding collection, Sara Paretsky showcases her extraordinary talents with fourteen short stories, including one new V.I. story and seven other classics featuring the indomitable detective.
In ‘Miss Bianca’ a young girl becomes involved in espionage when she befriends a mouse in a laboratory that is conducting dark experiments. Ten-year-old V.I. Warshawski appears in ‘Wildcat,’ embarking on her very first investigation to save her father. A hardboiled New York detective and elderly British aristocrat team up to reveal a murderer in Chicago during the World’s Fair in ‘Murder at the Century of Progress’.
In the new title story, ‘Love & Other Crimes’ V.I. treads the line between justice and vengeance when the wrongful firing of a family friend makes him a murder suspect.