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Sharon McCone is a private eye who finds that a women in her building has been murdered. As she is investigating the murder and looking for the criminal she finds that in her small town, there is a fencing chain that exists and she then goes on to shut down this organization and captures the killer....
Cyanide Wells
Mysterious, Jul 2003, 24.95, 292 pp. ISBN: 0892967811 In 1988 Minnesota, Matthew Lindstrom receives the call from a Wyoming sheriff that the car of his estranged wife Gwen has been found in Sweetwater County. Apparently, bloodstains are on the vehicle. No body is found and the case goes cold, but Matthew's neighbors, family, friends, and peers at the college he teaches at believe he killed Gwen rather than accept a divorce. He is treated as a ...
Dead Midnight
Mysterious, Jun 2002, 24.95, ISBN: 089296765X In San Francisco private investigator Sharon McCone does not know which feeling rips her guts worse. Is it the guilt for not realizing how depressed her brother was or is the grief that Joey killed himself? Though reluctant to investigate the suicide of Roger Nagasawa, Sharon believes work is the best thing to keep her mind off of Joey even if there appears surface parallels. Roger worked for a ...
Edwin of the Iron Shoes
Private eye Sharon McCone was hired by a San Francisco legal services plan, to discover who was vandalizing a small street of antique shops when one of the antique dealers was found murdered in her own shop. Sharon had no idea who had killed Joan Albritton, a pleasant older woman whose main fault was talking to the dressmaker's dummy, the stuffed German shepherd, and the little boy mannequin she kept in her shop, but she didn't feel confident in the poli...
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Marcia Muller, San Francisco's #1 Private Investigator, is asked by her sister to investigate strange things going on in her mansion located on the Sacramento Delta. She goes to investigate and a lot more happens than expected....
Point Deception
A decade-old unsolved mass murder is still causing tension in a small town on the coast of California. When a semi-retired writer shows up to tell the story, they shut him out. Even as he presses, new deaths start popping up, leading the local police--who still feel guilty for screwing up the first time--to believe that there is a connection. Truths that the townspeople would have preferred to keep buried keep revealing themselves, but as the danger i...
The Dangerous Hour
In this latest installment by Muller Private Investigator Sharon (Share, Shar) McCone is wrestling with a lot of problems in her personal life. Her cat is sick, her long time boyfriend wants to marry her, and in the opening of the story her youngest investigator (Julia) is accused of stealing the credit card of a former client. Supervisor Alex Aguilar who is running for mayor is the one doing the accusing. In fact he has also contacted the state lic...
While Other People Sleep
Sharon McCone, the main character, is being harrassed by a woman who assumes her identity. A smaller plot involves the bizarre behavior of a long-time co-worker and friend, who won't reveal the reasons behind his strange actions. The author is one of the best in the female private eye genre....