LAWRENCE — The best-selling mystery novelist Sara Paretsky will return to her hometown of Lawrence to accept the Lawrence Public Library Foundation’s Community Enrichment Award. The award will be presented Friday night during a public event at Liberty Hall in downtown Lawrence. Paretsky is best known for her character V.I.. Warshawski, a female private investigator in Chicago who is often ensnared in thorny political and social problems. Foundation executive director Kathleen Morgan tells the LawrenceJournal-World that Paretsky is true trailblazer in the mystery writing world with her hard-nosed female detective Warshawski and who inspired other similar female private eyes. In her newest book involving a political scandal, in her 15th Warshawski novel called “Breakdown,” Paretsky take potshots at the modern American 24-hour-cycle news media.
Monday, Nov. 5, 7 p.m.