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Vanessa Friedman’s thriller roundup on June 2nd in the New York Times suggested that "women have been on the margins of the thriller world forever, and are only breaking into it in this #MeToo era."
Sara Paretsky set the record straight in a letter to the New York Times. When I read that “the traditionally male-dominated world of the thriller” is finally “ceding ground to … a hero(ine),” I wondered what Friedman had been reading for the past 40 years.
Paretsky's own private detective V. I. Warshawski has been keeping us on the edge of our seats for nearly all of those 40 years.
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