Marica Muller, Author, Marcia Muller, Author Mysterious Press $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-621-9
Muller surpasses herself with this vigorous and trenchant mystery thriller, exploring stardom and family life, ambition and revenge, loneliness and conflicting loyalties. In her 17th appearance (after A Wild and Lonely Place and Wolf in the Shadows),
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Marcia Muller, Author Mysterious Press $22.5 (293p) ISBN 978-0-89296-688-2
In the 20th Sharon McCone mystery, the San Francisco-based PI leaves her usual haunts for Hawaii. McCone's downstairs office neighbor, Glenna Stanleigh, is a documentary filmmaker with a project on the island of Kauai. Glenna and her partner, Peter...
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Marcia Muller, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-312-01833-7
Joanna Stark, co-owner of an art security firm in San Francisco, comes to London to continue her vendetta against art thief Tony Parducci, the father of her son who, two decades before, deserted her when she became pregnant. A number of Brueghels,...
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Marcia Muller, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (207p) ISBN 978-0-312-12539-4
When Joanna Stark learns that a tall stranger has been attempting to locate her, she tries to remain calm. But even three years after her retirement as a security consultant to California museums and galleries, her suspicions are automatically...
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Marcia Muller, Author . Mysterious $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-89296-690-5
You can taste the fog and smell the seaweed along Highway 1 in Boucher Award-winner Muller's Soledad County—even though it's a fictional entity pasted between the real Mendocino and Humboldt Counties on California's northern coast.
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Marcia Muller, Author Mysterious Press $15.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-89296-270-9
Muller's ( Eye of the Storm ) virtuosity is demonstrated again in her eighth Sharon McCone mystery. Though the single, 35-ish investigator for San Francisco's All Souls Law Cooperative suspects her client, custom shirtmaker Rudy Goldring, isn't...
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Marcia Muller, Author Mysterious Press $16.95 (266p) ISBN 978-0-89296-417-8
San Francisco detective Sharon McCone ( The Shape of Dread ) uncovers murderous passions still simmering from the Vietnam anti-war movement when she undertakes an investigation into why a sniper victim changed his will to disinherit his children and
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Marcia Muller, Author Mysterious Press $19.95 (386p) ISBN 978-0-89296-526-7
Flying solo, swimming in the dark and losing her heart to a nine-year-old girl, the nearly-40 Sharon McCone tests her strength and her principles in this action-packed, affecting 16th adventure (after Till the Butchers Cut Him Down). A series of...
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Marcia Muller, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-89296-525-0
Alpha female of the pack of American PIs, San Francisco investigator Sharon McCone learns for herself how tough her readers have long known her to be in this, her 14th appearance. On a case that winds through her personal history, Sharon hides out...
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Marcia Muller, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-89296-455-0
While Muller continues to reveal new facets of character in her San Francisco PI, Sharon McCone, this latest case, the 15th, is considerably tamer than the Mexican border skirmishing featured in her 1993 Edgar-nominated A Wolf in the Shadows. McCone
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Marcia Muller, Author Mysterious Press $23 (400p) ISBN 978-0-89296-622-6
San Francisco PI Sharon McCone, in her 18th adventure (following The Broken Promise Land), loses a good friend and picks up a long, twisted trail of murders. Sharon's former flight instructor, Matty Wildress, dies in an aerobatics plane crash soon...
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Marcia Muller, Author Mysterious Press $22.5 (344p) ISBN 978-0-89296-650-9
That's when Sharon McCone, ace San Francisco PI, grapples with nightmares in this gripping 19th outing in 20 years (following Both Ends of the Night, 1997). Someone is impersonating Sharon, wearing her name-tag at parties, sleeping with unsuitable...
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Marcia Muller. Grand Central, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-446-57335-1
Bestseller Muller’s strong 31st Sharon McCone mystery (after 2011’s City of Whispers) centers on Caro Warrick, who was tried three years earlier for murdering her best friend, Amelia Bettencourt, a member of a prominent San Francisco political...
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Marcia Muller. Grand Central, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4555-2793-9
At the start of MWA Grand Master Muller’s absorbing 32nd Sharon McCone mystery (after 2012’s Looking for Yesterday), Jay and Camilla Givens, an attractive young couple who live in San Francisco’s upscale Russian Hill neighborhood, come to the PI...
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Marcia Muller. Grand Central, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-455-52795-3
The return of the presumed dead Gage Renshaw, the treacherous former business partner of Hy Ripinksy, Sharon McCone’s husband, kicks off MWA Grand Master Muller’s diverting but lightweight 33rd outing for veteran San Francisco PI McCone (after 2014’s
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Marcia Muller. Grand Central, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4555-3892-8
The savage beating of Sharon McCone’s 82-year-old father by a gang of thugs kicks off MWA Grand Master Muller’s outstanding 34th mystery featuring the San Francisco PI (after 2016’s Someone Always Knows). McCone’s father, nationally known Native...
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Marcia Muller. Grand Central, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4555-3893-5
In MWA Grand Master Muller’s underwhelming 35th novel featuring San Francisco PI Sharon McCone (after 2017’s The Color of Fear), McCone is dismayed to learn that 23-year-old Chelle Curley, a daughter of friends who restores old buildings, has...
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Marcia Muller, Author . Warner $24.99 (312p) ISBN 978-0-446-58242-1
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fter 25 books in 30 years, the novelty of a female private eye such as MWA Grand Master Muller's Sharon McCone has worn off, but McCone has only gained luster since her original appearance in Edwin of the Iron Shoes
(1977). The San Francisco
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Marcia Muller, Author . Mysterious $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-89296-765-0
Muller and her private eye Sharon McCone have come a long way since Edwin of the Iron Shoes
(1977), which introduced McCone and inspired a generation of female mystery writers. Since then Muller's writing has become richer and her novels more...
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Marcia Muller, Author . Mysterious $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-89296-781-0
Anthony-winner Muller delivers another stand-alone (after 2001's Point Deception) set in northern California's fictional Soledad County that fails to measure up to her bestselling Sharon McCone series (Dead Midnight, etc.). After being...
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Marcia Muller, Author . Mysterious $25 (290p) ISBN 978-0-89296-804-6
In Muller's 23rd page-turner about scrappy, smart PI Sharon McCone (Dead Midnight
, etc.), McCone now heads her own firm, McCone Investigations, a successful, established agency with a growing staff and more work than they can keep up with. But...
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Marcia Muller, Author . Mysterious $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-89296-006-4
MWA Grand Master Muller delivers a relatively routine stand-alone, a murder mystery with an environmental veneer, which falls short of the quality of her acclaimed Sharon McCone series (The Dangerous Hour
, etc.). When a greedy North Carolina...
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Marcia Muller, Author . Mysterious $24.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-89296-805-3
MWA Grand Master Muller's richly layered 24th mystery to feature San Francisco PI Sharon McCone (after 2004's The Dangerous Hour
) reminds us how much McCone has grown since she started as the lone investigator at a poverty law center in her
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Marcia Muller, Author Grand Central Publishing $6.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-446-60328-7
Continuing the Sharon McCone series, Muller's latest mystery concerns a terrorist bombing and a kidnapped little girl. (July)
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Marcia Muller, Author . Pegasus $15.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-933648-34-7
Fans of hard-boiled PI Sharon McCone will welcome the first story collection from MWA Grand Master Muller, who shows she’s just as adept at writing western and ghost tales as detective fiction. Several of the 19 selections feature McCone or...
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Marcia Muller, Author . Grand Central $24.99 (309p) ISBN 978-0-446-58107-3
After the travails of The Ever-Running Man
(2007), Sharon McCone retreats to her high desert ranch near Yosemite in MWA Grand Master Muller's fine 26th novel to feature the San Francisco PI. Depressed, bored and uncertain about her future in a
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Marcia Muller, Author . Grand Central $24.99 (281p) ISBN 978-0-446-58105-9
Bestseller Muller's harrowing 27th mystery to feature San Francisco PI Sharon McCone (after 2008's Burn Out
) opens with a bang: returning to her office late one night, McCone is shot while interrupting a burglary. When she wakes up in the
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Marcia Muller, Grand Central, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-446-58106-6
In Muller's brisk, carefully crafted 28th Sharon McCone mystery, the San Francisco PI, who's recovering from a debilitating bullet wound to the head suffered in 2009's Locked In, becomes alarmed when a close friend, Piper Quinn, abruptly stops...
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Marcia Muller, Author Mysterious Press $28 (264p) ISBN 978-0-89296-418-5
Incorporating current ecological concerns and a flavorsome Western setting, this 12th Sharon McCone story ( Trophies and Dead Things ) is top-notch. An investigator for the San Francisco-based All Souls Legal Coop, McCone is asked by former...
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Marcia Muller, Author Mysterious Press $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-89296-689-9
Boucher Award-winner Muller is back on form (after last year's somewhat disappointing and atypical A Walk Through Fire) in this latest entry in her deservedly popular series featuring PI Sharon McCone. In a personal twist, McCone has to crack one of
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Marcia Muller, Author Mysterious Press $16.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-271-6
With this extraordinarily complex, gripping novel, Muller surpasses the previous stories of Sharon McCone, San Francisco-based private eye. Sharon relates details in the case that takes her to meet Bobby Fisher in San Quentin where he's doomed to...
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Marcia Muller, Author Mysterious Press $5.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-446-40039-8
Private detective Sharon McCone, investigating the murder of a former anti-Vietnam War activist, discovers that his four beneficiaries are being targeted by a homicidal sniper. ``McCone is one of the most freshly conceived and complexly...
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Marcia Muller, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (297p) ISBN 978-0-89296-454-3
The 13th Sharon McCone mystery brings good luck to readers as Muller's veteran San Francisco PI explores crimes of passion and politics as they were played out in the Bay Area during the pre-Beat 1950s. In an intricate plot, McCone agrees to help...
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Marcia Muller, Author, Bill Pronzini, Author Five Star (ME) $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7862-1657-4
Along with four other volumes (not submitted for review but listed below), this collection launches Five Star's new series of library editions reprinting mystery short stories and original paperbacks. Here are 14 stories written--and now chosen for...
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Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini. Forge, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3174-8
Fans of Steve Hockensmith’s Holmes on the Range historicals will welcome this Carpenter and Quincannon novel, billed as the first in a new series from husband-and-wife MWA Grand Masters Muller and Pronzini (Beyond the Grave). In 1891, Sabina...
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Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini. Forge, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3175-5
An intriguing mystery and a threat to San Francisco PI Sabina Carpenter’s career drive Muller and Pronzini’s engaging second late-19th-century historical starring her and partner John Quincannon (after The Bughouse Affair). The wealthy parents of 18-
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Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini. Forge, $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3176-2
MWA grand masters Muller and Pronzini’s solid third mystery set in 1890s San Francisco (after 2013’s The Spook Lights Affair) finds the relationship between PIs Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon at a delicate juncture. Carson Montgomery, a...
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Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini. Forge, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8104-0
One of the ongoing mysteries in Muller and Pronzini's entertaining 1890s-era San Francisco whodunits may be resolved in the series's fourth entry (after 2015's The Body Snatchers Affair). In previous volumes, PIs Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon
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Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini. Forge, $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8105-7
In MWA grand masters Muller and Pronzini’s sprightly fifth mystery set in late 19th-century San Francisco (after 2016’s The Plague of Thieves), Sabina Carpenter, an ardent suffragette, bicycling enthusiast, and self-described New Woman (“the term...
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Marcia Muller. Grand Central, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-1-5387-3316-5
In MWA Grand Master Muller’s well-paced 34th Sharon McCone mystery (after 2018’s The Breakers), the Crimes Against Indigenous Sisters organization hires the San Francisco PI to look into the murders of two Native women over the past three months in...
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Edited by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini. Hanover Square, $26.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-335-04494-5
Anniversaries of all kinds are the source of mayhem for the 19 stories in this entertaining all-original anthology from MWA grand masters Muller and Pronzini (the Sabrina Carpenter series). Wedding anniversaries feature prominently, as in Max Allan...
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