Usually enjoy Sharon McCone books. While I know Ms. McCone is a liberal, this whole book seemed like an excuse for Ms. Muller to use Sharon McCone to push her liberal politics and bash the previous administration. The conclusion of the story was rushed. The search for Adah was very slowing bein...
In 1895, female detectives were not common in San Francisco. That's one of the things that made the detective agency of Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon so notable. The other was the success that they had solving the troubling cases that come to them. That successful reputation is put on t...
An emotionally complex character-driven mystery. Sheriff's deputy Rhoda Swift's territory is Northern California along the coast and the communities she patrols are spread out and thinly populated. Summer tourists and rich people who own summer homes are all that is keeping the few open businesse...
Fans of Marcia Muller’s Sharon McCone series will appreciate that after the heart-break McCone underwent during The Dangerous Hour, that Muller is letting McCone enjoy a little happiness. The Vanishing Point opens with McCone’s wedding reception. She and Hy Ripinsky have returned from their spur-...
Third in this series featuring San Francisco PI Sharon McCone. Sharon discovers the body of a client and old friend who had asked to meet her in a house he was in the process of restoring. She is then hired by the man who owns the house in the hope that she can solve the crime and clear the name ...
#18 in the Sharon McCone series. The main plotline of Sharon being asked to find her old flight instructor's significant, other followed by the flight instructor being murdered and Sharon and her lover Hy deciding to find her killer is an excellent addition to the series. Also satisfying is the s...
I couldn't find the first entry in the Sharon McCone series, Edwin of the Iron Shoes so I tried this one, the 22nd installment published in 2004. I liked it, but not enough to think I'll really get around to reading more in the series. On the irritating side, McCone complains about California ste...
While Other People Sleep, by Marcia Muller, A-minus, Narrated by Jean Reed Bahle, produced by Brilliance Audio, downloaded from audible.com. I’ve found the Sharon McCone books to be hit or miss, in the same way that Nevada Barr’s Anna Pigeon series can be hit or miss. But this is one of the bes...
San Francisco private detective, Sharon McCone, is back and using old-fashioned investigating techniques (no modern conveniences yet) to solve the murder of her elderly upstairs neighbor in her apartment building. A piece of drapery cord stolen from Sharon's apartment is the murder weapon and Mo...
About on a par with other books in the series - not great but not terrible.There was a bit too much 'family' in this book because Sharon McCone is investigating threats to her brother-in-law, country superstar Rick Savage. The story is told from two perspectives - Sharon's and her employee, Rae ...
This collection contains three stories told by McCone herself, as well as a novella and a short story narrated by the agency's investigator Rae Kelleher, a story from the viewpoint of its office manager Ted Smalley, an investigation conducted by McCone's nephew Mick Savage, and one by her lover H...
#16 in the Sharon McCone series. Finalist 1996 Macavity Award for Best Novel. Sharon continues the dramatic sea change in her career started with Wolf in the Shadows (1993). She's left the All Souls Legal Cooperative, she and boyfriend Hy share a cottage on the California coast and she has soloed...
tEdwin of the Iron Shoes was a fairly solid mystery. By that I mean while I did figure out whodunit, it was only slightly (a few chapters) ahead of the lead character (Sharon McCone). However, I did enjoy watching things unfold as clues were revealed. tCertain attitudes and aspects of this boo...
So here's the thing. I've been reading Marcia Muller for nigh on 20 years now but I did take a break. For about 5 years. I was cruising through the sale books on Nook and I saw a bunch of Muller's titles. I suddenly missed Sharon McCone, the hard-boiled San Francisco PI and her hippie collect...
#4 of 22 (so far) Sharon McCone Private Eye -- average...The 22 books to date in Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone series span from 1977, so this is one of the earlier ones (1984) in a set that obviously has staying power. Our leading lady is a full-time employee of a law firm where she handles inves...
We get another teeny glimpse into Sharon McCone in this book, besides the fact she has a bird phobia. We know she avoids her family, we know the two oldest brothers got into minor criminal scrapes, one sister is soccer mom and the other is counterculture. Her mom calls her occasionally. This is s...
Important Sharon McCone mystery in that Sharon discovers her real family, but overall, a poorly written story in that it would have been better as a tight novella or perhaps a longer, more fleshed out novel. It's hard for a practiced genre author to mess up the writing, but easier to mess up if y...
There’s Nothing to be Afraid of, by Marcia Muller, b-plus, Narrated by Laura Hicks, Produced by Audiogo, Downloaded from audible.com.This is the seventh in the Sharon McCone series, so it is set in the early 1980’s, soon after the end of the Vietnam war, and at a time when churches were working t...
Marcia's not the greatest writer, by which I mean a person with a talent for fondling words. Here's one of her passages, chosen at random:I shut the outside door and looked around. There was no furniture in the room other than a heavy antique sideboard, covered with what looked to be junk mail an...
I've been reading Marcia Muller for years but in no particular order. Whenever I see one of her Sharon McCone series books at a book sale that I haven't read, I buy it. I still have one more in my TBR stack. The reason is that they always are entertaining and I like McCone.Till the Butchers Cut H...
Trophies and Dead Things, by Marcia Muller, a-minus, Narrated by Laura Hicks, Produced by Audiogo Ltd., Downloaded from audible.com.Sharon McCone is helping Hank of All Souls go through the house of a friend of his, who was also his client, who was murdered by what appeared to be a sniper who had...
#20 in the Sharon McCone series. Sharon travels to Hawaii on an assignment and brings lover, Hy Ripinski, along to make it a working vacation. She promptly is attracted to a helicopter pilot jeopardizing her relationship with Hy. While trying to ignore her feelings, she attempts to discover who w...
I think this is an enjoyable mystery, but its one where I had to suspend the part of my brain that analyzes motives and reactions. It's very well written and I have no complaints there, but some of the characters are not believably drawn, and some incidents didn't feel right, like the fight betwe...
#14 in the Sharon McCone series. This novel appears to mark a watershed for author Muller. The book was the winner of the 1994 Anthony Award for Best Mystery and was short-listed for the Edgar, Shamus, and Dilys awards. Sharon's long time legal cooperative employer is changing and wants Sharon to...
While the story beguiles for awhile, and the energy level runs hot, and Sharon McCone's life and personal demons engage, I admit to feeling a tad unable to accept the denouement. Also, several characters did not respond in a believable manner to me, particularly Amy, Lisa, Tracy and even McCone. ...
Old fans and new readers alike should enjoy this latest, standalone mystery by Marcia Muller. Muller combines murder, betrayal, revenge and greed into a story of excitement and suspense.Matt Lindstrom has created a new life for himself running a charter fishing business in Port Regis, British Col...
It looked like a lost cause. Convicted of a brutal society murder in 1956, Lis Benedict had served a long sentence and just been released from jail. Then in a last desperate attempt to clean the Benedict name, her daughter Judy convinced All Souls Legal Cooperative to take her mother's case befor...
Marcia Muller, bestselling author of the acclaimed series starring San Francisco P.I. Sharon McCone, returns to the remote northern California coast of Point Deception and Cyanide Wells with an exciting new novel. A riveting mystery full of atmosphere and suspense, this tale explores the dark hea...
The first thing I did when I got home—naturally—was feed the cats. Before they would go to their bowl, they sniffed suspiciously at me, and Alex retreated under a table while Jessie’s tail puffed up. People claim cats have short memory spans, and maybe they do, but the odo...
She had never sheltered an animal before, but Adam provided companionship and comfort against the cold of the night.“Don’t stray too far,” she told him as he brushed against her ankles. “You’re much safer here, with a nice soft featherbed to sleep on.”I must be daft, she thought, speaking this wa...
Ignatius College. The Jesuit school had grown considerably since being granted a state charter in 1859 and had moved to this location some fifteen years earlier. It had several hundred students and a faculty that included Father James O’Halloran, whom Quincannon had had the pleasure of meeting du...
Larger than Vernon by far, and the county seat, but still a small town. Laid out on a grid, so I had no difficulty locating the Independent News building on D Street. The man I talked to was pleasant and friendly. Back issues on microfilm? No problem. They were going to put everything online some...
But from where I was standing, almost beneath it at the south end, even the mist couldn’t disguise the massiveness of its concrete piers and the taut strength of its cables. I tipped my head back and looked up the tower to where it disappeared into the drifting grayness, thinking about the other ...
He was seated in an armchair beside our kiva-style fireplace, where flames glowed steadily. “How you feeling?” he asked.“Too soon to tell.”“We had that doc RI uses in tricky situations come over and take a look at you. Nothing broken, no serious internal injuries. You reme...
Ted buzzed me. “You’re not going to like this.” “What’s the matter?” “You and Hy have a visitor. Gage Renshaw.” My breath caught and my pulse elevated. “…Gage—that can’t be! Hy and I assumed he died years ago.” &n...
I was finishing my second cup of coffee and contemplating my next approach to Jill Starkey when the phone rang and a man identified himself as Mr. Snelling, a representative of the management company for the building on Sly Lane. “We’re aware of the unfortunate situation with the elevator on Frid...
Harold Stennett was in court, she was told, but she was granted an audience with another of the partners, Philip Dubois. Yes, he knew of the Chicago firm of Hazelton and Bean, and confirmed that Mr. Stennett had recently visited that city and had had occasion to consult with Mr. Hazelton, whom he...