Authors: Marcia Muller.
Mass Market Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Publication Date: 2007-07-01


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    Sharon McCone is hired to investigate the 22-year-old disappearance of Laurel Greenwood, a housewife and artist who vanished inexplicably in the central part of California - one of San Luis Obispo County's most mysterious cold cases. But before she can penetrate Laurel's tangled double life she must solve a second disappearance - that of her client, Laurel Greenwood's daughter, who seems to be following a parallel course to her mother. The cases, which force Sharon to explore the darker sides of two marriages, comes uncomfortably close on the heels of her own marriage to long-time love Hy Ripinsky and she begins to doubt the wisdom of her impulsive trip to the Reno wedding chapel....

Authors: Marcia Muller.
Mass Market Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: 2003-07-01


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    Sharon McCone, Marcia Muller's street-smart, San Francisco PI, is stilldealing with the emotional aftermath of her brother Joey's suicide when she'shired by Roger Nagasawa's parents to prove that their son died of overwork, andthat he was driven to kill himself by the brutal, high-pressure atmosphere atInsite, the hip online magazine that employed him. Enlisting the help of herreporter friend J.D., McCone learns that the magazine is failing, despite themillions in venture capital that's supposedly financing it. The mystery deepenswhen she retrieves deleted files from Roger's computer suggesting that he knewwho was sabotaging the magazine and shared that information, which hecharacterized as "insurance," with Jody Houston, a close friend, before hejumped off the Bay Bridge. Tracking Houston to an isolated cabin on the Oregoncoast, McCone stumbles over the dead body of her friend J.D., and then findsherself framed for his murder. By the time she uncovers the truth about Roger'ssuicide and unmasks J.D.'s killer, she's confronted her remorse over Joey'sdeath and put a painful part of her own past behind her. As usual, Muller turnsin a solidly plotted, well-paced mystery with a heroine who grows inself-awareness and complexity with every new adventure. --Jane Adams...

    Sharon McCone, Marcia Muller's street-smart, San Francisco PI, is still dealing with the emotional aftermath of her brother Joey's suicide when she's hired by Roger Nagasawa's parents to prove that their son died of overwork, and that he was driven to kill himself by the brutal, high-pressure atmosphere at Insite, the hip online magazine that employed him. Enlisting the help of her reporter friend J.D., McCone learns that the magazine is failing, despite the millions in venture capital that's supposedly financing it. The mystery deepens when she retrieves deleted files from Roger's computer suggesting that he knew who was sabotaging the magazine and shared that information, which he characterized as "insurance," with Jody Houston, a close friend, before he jumped off the Bay Bridge. Tracking Houston to an isolated cabin on the Oregon coast, McCone stumbles over the dead body of her friend J.D., and then finds herself framed for his murder. By the time she uncovers the truth about Roger's suicide and unmasks J.D.'s killer, she's confronted her remorse over Joey's death and put a painful part of her own past behind her. As usual, Muller turns in a solidly plotted, well-paced mystery with a heroine who grows in self-awareness and complexity with every new adventure. --Jane Adams...

Authors: Marcia Muller.
Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Warner Books
Publication Date: 2007-07-12


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    Sharon McCone is hired by her husband's security firm to track down "the ever-running man," a shadowy figure who has been leaving explosive devices at their various offices. She doesn't have to search for long. When McCone narrowly escapes an explosion at the security firm's San Francisco offices, she catches a glimpse of his retreating figure. The ever-running man is dangerously close--and anyone connected to the firm seems to be within his deadly range. To complicate matters, McCone is forced to question her intensely private husband, Hy, about his involvement in some of the firm's dark secrets. The history of corruption may jeopardize their marriage, but uncovering the secrets of the firm may be the only way she can save her husband's life, and her own....

Authors: Marcia Muller.
Mass Market Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: 2005-06-01


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    - Mutter's previous novel, "Cyanide Wells, was published in Mysterious Press hardcover in 7/03, and will be released in mass market simultaneous with THE DANGEROUS HOUR.- "Dead Midnight (Mysterious Press, 6/02) hit the "Los Angeles Times bestseller list, winning rave reviews from the "New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly (starred review), and "Booklist. The mass market edition was published in 7/03.- Muller's McCone series has consistently received strong reviews from national publications, including the "New York Times Book Review, USA TODAY, and the "Los Angeles Times, among others.- The McCone mysteries are being developed by Spring Creek Productions and CBS-TV into a pilot for a new television series....

Authors: Marcia Muller.
Mass Market Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: 2000-07-01
Edition: Reprint

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    Sharon McCone, weary of San Franciscos persistent rainy weather, jumps at the chance to investigate sabotage on the set of a documentary film being shot on the island of Kauai. Based on the writings of Hawaiian scholar Elson Wellbright, the film has incited major controversy among some of Wellbrights family members who arent anxious to see the project reach completion. Vandalism quickly escalates into big-time violence, and McCone discovers a world of family secrets, drug dealing, political insurgency, and murder in this new crime novel by one of the worlds most beloved mystery writers. Marcia Mullers previous Sharon McCone mystery, While Other People Sleep (Mysterious Press 7/98), hit the bestseller list. Its paperback publication will coincide with A Walk Through Fire. Both Ends of the Night was also a bestseller and was named one of the seven best mysteries of the year by Publishers Weekly. Mysterious Press has published the novels of Marcia Muller since 1988.Muller handles the professional and personal threads of her stories with dexterity and fine suspensea pro in her happily continuing prime. The London Free Press...

Authors: Marcia Muller.
Mass Market Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: 2006-07-01


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    At the northernmost point of Soledad County. California, lies Cape Perdido - once a thriving lumber town, now a getaway for tourists and outdoor recreationists. But when the water harvesting plans of a North Carolina company threaten the residents' livelihoods, four people get caught up in the fight to save the town in very different ways: jessie Domingo, a community liaison specialist from a New York ecological consultancy; Joseph Openshaw, a respected environmentalist, whose return to the Cape after 20 years forces him to face ghosts from his past; Steph Pace, a restauranteur and Openshaw's former love, who must confront the same ghosts and Timothy McNear, a former lumber mill owner who harbors secrets of his own. The arrival of the 'waterbaggers' will drive otherwise peaceful people to desperate acts and a dramatic series of events that will awaken the residents of Cape Perdidoto unsavoury truths about their town - an each other....

Authors: Marcia Muller.
Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Publication Date: 2007-04-01


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"Her stories crackle like few others on the mystery landscape."-San Francisco Chronicle

"One of the treasures of the genre."-Chicago Tribune

A new collection of Marcia Muller's best short fiction from the past twenty years, including hardboiled private-eye, horror, western, and psychological suspense stories.

Marcia Muller, a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, is the author of more than twenty novels. She has been awarded the Private Eye Writers of America Life Achievement Award; her books have been nominated for Best Crime Novel at the Edgars, and she has won the Anthony Boucher Award. She lives in California.

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Authors: Marcia Muller.
Mass Market Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Publication Date: 1989-03-01


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    On a pleasure trip to the Sacramento Delta, Sharon McCone encounters ghostly intervention, mysterious vandalism and murder on the site of a decrepit Victorian mansion. Another thrilling mystery featuring San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone. HC: Mysterious Press....

Authors: Marcia Muller.
Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: 1999-05-01


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    The hunt is on for a cunning stalker who has been impersonating P.I. Sharon McCone with alarming results. What first seemed like a harmless party prank becomes a bizarre game of cat and mouse through the sinister streets of San Francisco as the impostor escalates her assault on McCone by invading her home, canceling her credit cards, and frightening her family with fraudulent phone calls. But when McCone is almost arrested for a crime the impostor committed, it's payback time with a vengeance--and a final face off with her doppelganger....

    In the old days, Sharon McCone was a scrappy, idealistic investigator working out of a rambling old San Francisco Victorian that housed the All Souls legal collective. In the 1990s, All Souls is a conventionally successful law firm, and McCone is on her own. These days her profile is a lot higher, thanks to a People magazine article, and her digs, both personal and professional, are decidedly more upscale. But the price of fame is higher than she knows; somewhere there's a woman with Sharon's face, Sharon's name, and a supply of Sharon's business cards. The impersonator isn't just drumming up business on her own--she's sleeping with McCone's clients and then stealing from them, destroying the agency's reputation, and threatening Sharon's family and friends as well as her livelihood. The mystery woman may even have found a way to screw up Sharon's relationship with Hy Ripinsky, her long-time lover. What's certain is that she knows the most intimate details of McCone's private as well as public life, and that wherever Sharon goes, her impersonator has somehow managed to get there first. What seemed at first like an innocent case of heroine-worship turns decidedly deadly, especially since McCone has no clue as to the mystery woman's motives, plans, or identity.

Marcia Muller almost single-handedly invented the genre of female P.I.'s, and she's in top form here, capitalizing on McCone's vulnerabilities as well as her strengths in a tightly plotted mystery with a dramatic climax, strong characters, and solid characterization. In prior installments, both Muller and McCone had started to lose their edge a bit, but fans of longstanding will be delighted by this engrossing adventure. --Jane Adams...

Authors: Marcia Muller.
Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: 1998-06-01


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    Sharon McCone's flight instructor Matty confides that her boyfriend, John Seabrook, is missing and asks Sharon to find him. Shortly afterward, Matty is killed in an "accidental" plane crash. More determined than ever, Sharon discovers that, a decade earlier, Seabrook was placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program after testifying against a man who has been missing for the last 10 years. Following sinister leads, Sharon travels to a frozen wilderness -- and comes face-to-face with a cold killer....

    San Francisco-based private detective Sharon McCone is tracking a man whose actions have already caused the deaths of two women who loved and trusted him in the 18th installment of this memorable series. Because Marcia Muller's books are as much about McCone's relationships with her extended, occasionally dysfunctional family as they are about the cases themselves, first-time visitors might have trouble sorting out all the relatives. But, as always, the rewards are well worth the effort. In this case, there are several evocative flying scenes that help groundlings understand why people do it, a stinging attack on the callousness of the Witness Protection Program, and more glimpses into the tangled soul of Hy Ripinsky, McCone's interesting lover. Other McCone adventures in paperback include The Broken Promise Land, A Wild and Lonely Place, Till the Butchers Cut Him Down, and Wolf in the Shadows....