Marcia Muller
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Sharon McCone
Pennies on a Dead Woman's Eyes
Broken Promise Land
Featuring Sharon McCone, Private Investigator. See Review
When country music star, Ricky Savage, receives an anonymous threat, he knows instantly where to turn. His sister-in-law is Sharon McCone.
But Ricky's past isn't as pretty as his press notes suggest. As threats lead to gossip and radio stations turn reluctant to play his new album, both Ricky's precarious marriage and his glittering career are soon in jeopardy. Then the trauma takes on more treacherous tones. And McCone discovers that Ricky has deadly enemies, in an industry known for breaking promises - and lives.
"McCone is one of the most freshly conceived and complexly characterised of the female private eyes." Publishers Weekly
"Excitement amplified" Literary Review
First British Publication The Women’s Press
Sharon McCone. Private Eye. Sharp-willed, steely-eyed, powerful, intuitive and just. Still battling corruption on the San Francisco streets.
This time Sharon McCone finds herself reluctantly defending Lis Benedict, convicted of the now infamous 36-year-old slaying of Cordy Mckittridge, a San Francisco debutante. Benedict has just been released from prison insisting on her innocence, as she has all along. McCone’s belief in her is strengthened as a campaign of harassment quickly escalates into violence, and Sharon herself becomes a target. The suspects include a state supreme court justice, a former society matron and the director of one of the country’s most influential think-tanks.. undeterred McCone dives head fist into the whole sordid story..
"The revolution began quietly. In 1977 Marcia Muller invaded the previous all-male domain of the hard-boiled private eye. Not many heard the first shots, but a decade later, the tough woman P.I. had become a publishing phenomenon. Sharon McCone.. .led the way for Sara Paretsky, and Sue Grafton." Newsweek
"Marcia Muller is the founding 'mother' of the contemporary female hard-boiled private eye." Sue Grafton
First British Publication The Women’s Press)
Sharon McCone. Private Eye. Determined. Decisive. Daring. Now drawn into a world of international crime. See Review
A series of diplomats have been the targets of a vicious bombing campaign. Reluctantly, Sharon McCone agrees to help a security firm protect their client. And there’s far more at stake than the one million dollar reward the FBI are offering for the terrorist’s capture. Behind a wall of diplomatic immunity, McCone uncovers a web of intrigue, corruption an murder. Now a child’s life is in peril and, as McCone’s trail leads her back to those she’s been hired to defend, she finds herself in the sights of a ruthless and cold-blooded killer…
"Marcia Muller and her private investigator, Sharon McCone, hold hands and jump off the deep end… The professional risks pay off all round." New York Times
"Quirky and unpredictable, independent yet occasionally vulnerable - Sharon McCone is on elements of the most convincing creations, male or female, in mystery fiction." San Diego Union-Tribune
"The best thing that could have happened to an often pathetically macho genre" Sky
First British Publication The Women’s Press
Sharon McCone is determined to get to the root of a mystery whatever the consequences. But her employers, the All Souls Legal Cooperative, have issued an ultimatum. They want McCone to take a promotion - a desk job designed to curb her unorthodox behaviour - or leave. Just when her new lover, the enigmatic Ry Ripinsky, has gone missing. At first, tracking him down seems an adventure. A welcome break from the woes of work. Then McCone uncovers a million-dollar kidnapping. Soon she is caught up in a deadly game, played out in the badlands of the American-Mexican border. Just how well does she know her mysterious lover? Confronted with tough choices, McCone puts her own life, her future and everything she holds dear at risk….
"Muller produces the sort of thrillers that enthusiasts always hope for but rarely get." The Sunday Times
"Marcia Muller has received a good deal of attention for her McCone novels and she deserves all of it." The New York Times Book Review
First British Publication The Women’s Press
Sharon McCone, Private Eye. Headstrong. Dedicated. Hardworking and honest. McCone has her heart in the right place.
But can she overcome the small-town secrets and suspicions that hide a maniacal killer poised to strike again? Hired by the reclusive and sensational photographer, Abe Snelling, to find his missing roommate, McCone has her work cut out. But Jane Anthony turns up only too soon. Dead beneath a rotting pier in the sleepy fishing village of Salmon Bay. As McCone discovers, small towns are never as sleepy as they look…. Confronted with a host of suspects and cut short by local residents who don’t like her city-girl sleuthing, McCone finds herself an unwilling player in an increasingly deadly game.
"Muller packs this one with vivid street scenes, breathing, yearning characters and plot that wrenches in the same way an obituary for a teenager." Chicago Sun-Times
"The most accomplished of Marcia Muller’s clever mysteries to date." Mystery News
Marcia Muller
(series: Sharon McCone; Elena Oliverez; Joanna Starkdenotes American Publication)
- Edwin of the Iron Shoes (McCone) (Penguin, 1978 The Women's Press)
- Ask the Cards a Question (McCone) (Hale, 1983)
- The Cheshire Cat's Eye (McCone) (Hale, 1983)
- The Tree of Death (Oliverez) (Hale, 1986)
- Games to Keep the Dark Away (McCone) (Severn House, 1985, The Women's Press)
- Leave a Message for Wille (McCone) (The Women's Press)
- Double (McCone) , with Bill Pronzini (Hale, 1986)
- The Legend of the Slain Soldiers (Oliverez) (Hale, 1986)
- The Lighthouse, with Bill Pronzini (London, Hale, 1988)
- There's Something in a Sunday (McCone) (The Women's Press)
- The Shape of Dread (McCone) (The Women's Press)
- Ask the Cards a Question (McCone) (The Women's Press)
- Trophies and Dead Things (McCone) (The Women's Press)
- Where Echoes Live (McCone) (The Women's Press)
- Pennies on a Dead Woman's Eyes (McCone) (The Women's Press)
- Wolf in the Shadows (McCone) (The Women's Press)
- Till the Butchers Cut Him Down (McCone) (The Women's Press)
- A Wild and Lonely Place (McCone) (The Women's Press 1995)
- The Broken Promise Land (McCone) (The Women's Press 1996)
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