Author Sara Paretsky tours Chicago for her next crime scene

Author Sara Paretsky tours Chicago for her next crime scene
Author Sara Paretsky has spent her career exploring Chicago's forgotten corners. In front of the U.S. Steel plant in 1989. Courtesy saraparetsky.com
Author Sara Paretsky tours Chicago for her next crime scene
Author Sara Paretsky has spent her career exploring Chicago's forgotten corners. In front of the U.S. Steel plant in 1989. Courtesy saraparetsky.com

Author Sara Paretsky tours Chicago for her next crime scene

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Controlling crime is a big part of Mayor Emanuel’s agenda but Eight Forty-Eight wanted to turn to someone whose job is to create it - on the page that is. Crime writer Sara Paretsky and her fictional detective protagonist, V.I. Warshawski, both call Chicago home. Like her detective creation, Paretsky spends a lot of time pounding the pavement; but she hunts for inspiration, not clues. Paretsky recently took Alison Cuddy on a tour of some of the places in Chicago that inspire her criminally inclined mind.