Octavo 9 1 2 tall 385 pages black and red boards a fine clean neat hard cover with little shelf wear gently read binding tight paper cream white in a fine lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present. Hard time is the work of a master a riveting novel of suspense that is indisputably paretskys best vi warshawski novel yet multimedia conglomerate global entertainment has purchased the chicago herald star forcing the papers staff to scramble to stay employed. Book hard time vi warshawski 9 by sara paretsky book 29 52 for the year stars time to read 8 days how did i get it digital version via library mini review vi warshawskis friend and sometimes for murray ryerson has had to reinvent himself as a tv host after the newspaper has been bought on the way home from his celebration vi runs over a woman laying in the street. Vi is as hardboiled as ever in hard time in fact this book is probably sara paretskys best vi warshawski novel since killing orders fast paced and filled with the type of tough talking dialogue only hard boiled detectives use this book practically read itself in a few short nerve wracked nights