Sharon McCone Mystery Series by Marcia Muller (#01-#10)
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Overview: Marcia Muller is the author of more than thirty-five novels including twenty-five featuring PI Sharon McCone. She’s been recognized with the 2005 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America, the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award, a Ridley Award, an American Mystery Award, and the Anthony Award.
Genre: Mystery/Thriller, Detective
Sharon McCone Mystery Series: #01-#10
Edwin of the Iron Shoes # 01: The book that launched the massively popular series! It’s Sharon McCone’s first case as staff investigator for All Souls Legal Cooperative. She knows nothing about antiques, yet she has an affection for Salem Street with its charming mix of antique and curio shops. Now elderly dealer Joan Albritton has been found dead, stabbed with an antique dagger. Her neighbors are shocked. Recurring vandalism has them frightened. And McCone’s introduction to Lieutenant Gregory Marcus doesn’t help matters. Ferreting out the facts will take Sharon from the chaotic jumble of the junk dealer’s establishment to a museum where San Francisco’s most elegant socialites gather.
Ask the Cards a Question # 02: PRIVATE EYE SHARON MCCONE IS faced with a murder case too close for comfort–who would have wanted to kill Molly Antonio, the nicest lady in Sharon’s building? The San Francisco neighborhood seems a pretty sleepy place for a murder; the most exotic tenant is the hat-faced Madame Anya, who tells fortunes for five dollars… and who had warned Molly that the cards foretold evil things in store for her. Sharon realizes that her impulsive and heavy-drinking friend Linnea Carraway was the last person to see Molly alive, and may be the prime suspect. As the detective works against time to find the killer and clear her friend, she encounters adventures that threaten not only her professional credibility, but even her life. A string of big-time deals, brutal blackmail, and murder to which even the experts have been blind lead Sharon to a surprising solution–just in time.
The Cheshire Cat’s Eye # 03: ONCE AGAIN, SAVVY PRIVATE EYE Sharon McCone is plunged into intrigue and murder. This time her investigations lead her to San Francisco’s "Painted Ladies" — the landmark district of gaudily colored Victorian row houses. Responding to her old friend Jake Kaufmann’s urgent call, Sharon is shocked to find him dead in a pool of red paint in the house he was restoring. Assuming that his killer will be found among the glamorous, fashionable figures of the city’s architectural community Sharon is soon embroiled in the battles between the matronly, upper-crust preservationists and the flamboyant, funky defenders of the psychedelic houses. Her investigation narrows to the pursuit of one very valuable clue: a one-of-a-kind Tiffany lamp emblazoned with the grinning face of the Cheshire Cat. But it is when Sharon herself is implicated in Jake’s death that the pressure reaches its peak — and it takes all of her daring to get herself out of this one.
Games to Keep the Dark Away # 04: The woman under the pier…Picture Salmon Bay: an isolated, run-down northern California village, home to an idle fleet of fishing boats, a deserted amusement park, and a handful of secretive, even hostile residents. When private investigator Sharon McCone arrives in search of one of the town’s wayward daughters, the trail leads to the thriving resort of Port San Marco. McCone believes that the missing woman, a former social worker named Jane Anthony, was involved in the suspicious deaths of three terminally ill patients at an exclusive hospice. But the elusive Jane Anthony turns up all too soon–washed up beneath a rotting pier in her Salmon Bay. McCone discovers that no one–not her client, a reclusive photographer, nor Jane’s mother, nor her hospice employers–wants to find out why she died. Then the killer strikes again, Jane’s secret life comes into focus, and McCone finds that someone wants her out of the picture–permanently.
Leave A Message For Willie # 05: Amid the shifting world of San Francisco flea markets, shady vendors sell junk, precious antiques, and stolen goods side by side. Somewhere in the mix, a priceless collection of sacred Torah scrolls is gathering dust – and attracting a group of fanatical killers. When private investigator Sharon McCone helps one flea market kingpin fend off a stalker, she’s drawn into the netherworld of deal-making and thievery, a dangerous milieu seldom seen by outsiders. For her client Willie Whelan, the sidewalk sales are a game: trick the customer, outsell the competition, and stay one step ahead of the cops. But Willie’s enemies have something more sinister in mind – a conspiracy so heinous it threatens the religious artifacts, Willie’s freedom, and McCone’s life.
There’s Nothing to Be Afraid of # 06: The Globe Apartments, six stories of decaying brick and concrete, rises above San Francisco’s volatile Tenderloin district. The seedy former hotel, once a haven for the city’s down and out, now houses Vietnamese families striving to improve their lives. But private eye Sharon McCone believes that someone from the Tenderloin’s shadowy underworld is determined to drive the newcomers out. The suspects range from the colorful to the dangerous: a poetry-loving drifter, a mean-spirited preacher, a flower seller with a deadly touch, an enterprising photographer, and a developer who’d like nothing better than to unload his worst investment – the Globe Hotel. When the All Souls Legal Cooperative is called upon to stop the patterns of intimidation, resentment explodes into murder. As McCone takes up the refugees’ cause, she is drawn into the depths of the city’s most hated industry – and into the secrets of San Francisco’s buried past.
Eye of the Storm # 07: Private eye Sharon McCone is lured away from San Francisco to what she thinks will be a weekend "busman’s holiday." Her sister Patsy has invited her to Appleby Island, once the home of an agricultural tycoon. With his heirs long gone, the rich man’s decrepit Victorian mansion is being converted into a bed-and-breakfast inn. No sooner does the restoration begin than strange events begin to occur. First the workers walk off the site, claiming to have seen the ghost of a legendary, long-dead hermit. Countless acts of vandalism take place. Soon after Sharon arrives, she sees evidence of fraud-why should this carefully capitalized project be running out of money?
There’s Something in a Sunday # 08: It’s a cold Sunday in San Francisco. Sharon McCone’s alone on a routine surveillance job, following a man named Frank Wilkonson through the city’s lush horticultural hot spots to the serene foothills of the Diablos. But when she returns to find her kindly old client in a pool of blood, nothing she’s learned explains it. The search for answers takes her from Wilkonson’s sullen brood on Burning Oak Ranch, to the eccentric havoc of a household in the Haight, to Golden Gate Park and the desperate digs of the homeless. Unraveling the threads that link a homeless man, a pair of prominent activists, a wayward rancher, and a mysterious missing beauty, Sharon is plunged into the depths of domestic mayhem… entering a realm where dreams shatter and marriage leads to bloody murder.
The Shape of Dread # 09: Bobby Foster, car-hop at the chic Cafe Comedie, is going to the gas chamber. He’s already confessed to the murder of Tracy Kostakos, the club’s rising star. But two years after the crime, Tracy’s body is still missing and Bobby’s confession is full of holes. All Souls Legal Cooperative’s final appeal sends San Francisco’s #1 P.I. Sharon McCone behind the footlights into the super-charged arena of anxious club owners and aspiring young hopefuls…into the fractured world of Tracy’s privileged family and the mind of a young comedienne who was not the good little girl they thought they knew…into a labyrinth of death and deception where someone will kill to laugh last and get away with murder.
Trophies & Dead Things # 10: A RANDOM SERIES OF MURDERS IS ONLY a succession of headlines in the San Francisco Chronicle for investigator Sharon McCone until one of her legal co-op’s clients becomes a victim. Perry Hilderly had been a founder of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in the early 1960s. Although he had settled down and drawn up a proper will several years earlier, a holograph document was found among his possessions … the new will disinherits his children and leaves his considerable estate to four unknowns. As Sharon tries to track down this strange quartet, she wonders what connection they had had with the dead man. One is a popular news anchor, one is a successful divorce attorney, one runs a Marin County horse stable, and the fourth is an alcoholic oysterman. Before long, Sharon notices a pattern–a tangled pattern of involvement leading back to the Vietnam War. When the random killer starts to strike closer to home, the facts behind Hilderly’s death become less abstract. Never before has Sharon become so personally involved in a case–and faced so squarely the brutal consequences of murderous rage.
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