Sara Paretsky: Hard Time (UK 2013) From the Publisher: The deceased is Nicola Aguinaldo, former employee of security giant B.B. Baladine and recent prison runaway. Taking on the case, V.I. finds herself plunged into a sinister network of corruption that pits her against the police, the prison and the entertainment industry - with potentially lethal results. Sara Paretsky: Hard Time. Sometimes the only way out is to go in... Hodder, ISBN: 9781444761542 (February, 2013), 419 p., £8.99.
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Sara Paretsky: Hard Time (USA 2000) From the Publisher: Multimedia conglomerate Global Entertainment has purchased the Chicago Herald-Star, forcing the paper's staff to scramble to stay employed. Reporter Murray Ryerson, V.I.'s longtime friend and sometime rival, manages to reinvent himself as the host of a television show on Global's network. On her way home from a party celebrating Murray's debut, V.I. almost runs over a woman lying in the street. Stopping to help, V.I. soon learns that her Good Samaritan act will drop her squarely in a boiling intrigue. In a case that forces her to go head-to-head with one of the world's largest providers of private security and prison services, a case that exposes dark hidden truths behind the razzle-dazzle of the entertainment industry, V.I. will be ahead of the game if she gets out alive. Sara Paretsky: Hard Time. Bantam Dell Publishing Group, ISBN: 0440224705 (September, 2000), 495 p., $6.99.
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Sara Paretsky: Hard Time (UK 2000) From the Publisher: The woman is Nicola Aguinaldo, a runaway from women's prison Coolis, and ex-nanny for BB Baladine, the head of a large and powerful private security firm. When V. I. starts asking awkward questions about Nicola's death, she becomes the victim of an aggressive cover-up which brings her head-on with the police, the prison and corrupt big business, leaving her isolated from her allies and in more danger than ever before - even old friend and one-time lover journalist Murray Ryerson has sold his soul to the showbiz sharks at media empire Global Entertainment. V. I. is used to taking a bruising, but when she is arrested on a trumped-up charge and thrown into the lion's den at Coolis she faces her hardest time yet. Sara Paretsky: Hard Time. Penguin, ISBN: 0140276726 (August, 2000), 419 p., £5.99.
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Sara Paretsky: Hard Time (USA 1999) From the Publisher: Multimedia conglomerate Global Entertainment has purchased the Chicago Herald-Star, forcing the paper's staff to scramble to stay employed. Reporter Murray Ryerson, V.I.'s longtime friend and sometime rival, manages to reinvent himself as the host of a television show on Global's network. On her way home from a party celebrating Murray's debut, V.I. almost runs over a woman lying in the street. Stopping to help, V.I. soon learns that her Good Samaritan act will drop her squarely in a boiling intrigue. In a case that forces her to go head-to-head with one of the world's largest providers of private security and prison services, a case that exposes dark hidden truths behind the razzle-dazzle of the entertainment industry, V.I. will be ahead of the game if she gets out alive. Sara Paretsky: Hard Time. A V.I. Warshawski Novel. Delacorte Press, ISBN: 0385313632 (September, 1999), 385 p., $24.95.
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