Sara Paretsky is famous for her bestselling novels about the Chicago female private eye VI Warshawski. She has taken a break from her crime fiction series to pen her latest novel 'Bleeding Kansas' about two families who have been farming for one hundred and fifty years in Kansas, their lives connected by constant family feuds. Jane talks to Sara about being an outsider growing up in rural Kansas and some of the themes featured in the book such as religious intolerance and the anti-Iraq war movement.
'Bleeding Kansas' by Sara Paretsky is published by Hodder and Stoughton, ISBN: 9780340839119.
