![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the novel that unleashes her Chicago private eye VI Warshawski and it was an epiphany for me. There are some key milestones that will always stand proud of the rest: the moment, reading a Chalet School book, when I understood that being a writer was a proper job falling in love with crime fiction when I read my first Miss Marple at the age of eight or nine the perennial joy of Treasure Island, with its perfect blend of character, plot, setting and good writing, not to mention the ending that leaves space for the reader’s imagination and plunging headlong into another way of looking at the world thanks to Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics.īut if I had to point to one book that had irrevocably changed my future, I would have to settle on Sara Paretsky’s Indemnity Only. Paretsky’s detective is a courageous fighter for the weak against the strong (Susannah Ireland/The Independent)ī ooks have shaped my life in more ways than I can explain. ![]()
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