“One of the biggest helps I got with this came from an ad hoc singing group that formed on my block. I wrote and discarded many times until I got to the core story that is in the final version. There’s something about the pandemic that made it hard to focus…and that was true for OVERBOARD. “I struggled, as everyone did, especially those who, like me, live alone. “OVERBOARD was my COVID book,” Paretsky tells The Big Thrill. I unfortunately fell into the second category.” Others found themselves unable to summon ideas or creative wit. “Some of my writing friends found the isolation a time that focused their creativity in new ways. “I wrote this book during the first year of the pandemic,” Paretsky says in an author’s note for OVERBOARD. Warshawski series and marks the 40 th anniversary of the first time we met V.I. V.I.’s efforts to help the girl send her head-first into a collision with Chicago’s most powerful and connected property dealers that soon puts her own life at risk too. Warshawski thriller called OVERBOARD, in which her iconic female PI battles crime and COVID to solve the mystery of an unidentified young girl she finds near death. Bestselling author Sara Paretsky says writing during the pandemic has been difficult for her-but the result is an exciting new V.I.
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