Muller, Marcia

The Ever-Running Man (Sharon McCone Mysteries)

Sharon McCone is hired by her husband's security firm to track down "the ever-running man," a shadowy figure who has been leaving explosive devices at their various offices. She doesn't have to search for long. When McCone narrowly escapes an explosion at the security firm's San Francisco offices, she catches a glimpse of his retreating figure. The ever-running man is dangerously close--and anyone connected to the firm seems to be within his deadly range. To complicate matters, McCone is forced to question her intensely private husband, Hy, about his involvement in some of the firm's dark secrets. The history of corruption may jeopardize their marriage, but uncovering the secrets of the firm may be the only way she can save her husband's life, and her own.

Vanishing Point (Sharon McCone Mysteries)

In the latest installment in this critically acclaimed series, McCone is hired to investigate one of San Luis Obispo Countys most puzzling cold cases. A generation ago, Laurel Greenwood, a housewife and artist, inexplicably vanished, leaving her young daughter alone. Now, new evidence suggests that the missing woman may have led a strange double life. But before McCone can penetrate the tangled mystery, she must first solve a second disappearancethat of her client, the now grown daughter of Laurel Greenwood. The case, which forces Sharon to explore the darker sides of two marriages, comes uncomfortably close on the heels of her own marriage to Hy Ripinsky, and she begins to doubt the wisdom of her impulsive trip to the Reno wedding chapel.

Dead Midnight (Sharon McCone Mysteries)

Sharon McCone, Marcia Muller's street-smart, San Francisco PI, is still dealing with the emotional aftermath of her brother Joey's suicide when she's hired by Roger Nagasawa's parents to prove that their son died of overwork, and that he was driven to kill himself by the brutal, high-pressure atmosphere at Insite, the hip online magazine that employed him. Enlisting the help of her reporter friend J.D., McCone learns that the magazine is failing, despite the millions in venture capital that's supposedly financing it. The mystery deepens when she retrieves deleted files from Roger's computer suggesting that he knew who was sabotaging the magazine and shared that information, which he characterized as "insurance," with Jody Houston, a close friend, before he jumped off the Bay Bridge. Tracking Houston to an isolated cabin on the Oregon coast, McCone stumbles over the dead body of her friend J.D., and then finds herself framed for his murder. By the time she uncovers the truth about Roger's suicide and unmasks J.D.'s killer, she's confronted her remorse over Joey's death and put a painful part of her own past behind her. As usual, Muller turns in a solidly plotted, well-paced mystery with a heroine who grows in self-awareness and complexity with every new adventure. --Jane Adams

Sharon McCone, Marcia Muller's street-smart, San Francisco PI, is stilldealing with the emotional aftermath of her brother Joey's suicide when she'shired by Roger Nagasawa's parents to prove that their son died of overwork, andthat he was driven to kill himself by the brutal, high-pressure atmosphere atInsite, the hip online magazine that employed him. Enlisting the help of herreporter friend J.D., McCone learns that the magazine is failing, despite themillions in venture capital that's supposedly financing it. The mystery deepenswhen she retrieves deleted files from Roger's computer suggesting that he knewwho was sabotaging the magazine and shared that information, which hecharacterized as "insurance," with Jody Houston, a close friend, before hejumped off the Bay Bridge. Tracking Houston to an isolated cabin on the Oregoncoast, McCone stumbles over the dead body of her friend J.D., and then findsherself framed for his murder. By the time she uncovers the truth about Roger'ssuicide and unmasks J.D.'s killer, she's confronted her remorse over Joey'sdeath and put a painful part of her own past behind her. As usual, Muller turnsin a solidly plotted, well-paced mystery with a heroine who grows inself-awareness and complexity with every new adventure. --Jane Adams

Eye of the Storm

A Walk Through the Fire

Sharon McCone, weary of San Franciscos persistent rainy weather, jumps at the chance to investigate sabotage on the set of a documentary film being shot on the island of Kauai. Based on the writings of Hawaiian scholar Elson Wellbright, the film has incited major controversy among some of Wellbrights family members who arent anxious to see the project reach completion. Vandalism quickly escalates into big-time violence, and McCone discovers a world of family secrets, drug dealing, political insurgency, and murder in this new crime novel by one of the worlds most beloved mystery writers. Marcia Mullers previous Sharon McCone mystery, While Other People Sleep (Mysterious Press 7/98), hit the bestseller list. Its paperback publication will coincide with A Walk Through Fire. Both Ends of the Night was also a bestseller and was named one of the seven best mysteries of the year by Publishers Weekly. Mysterious Press has published the novels of Marcia Muller since 1988.Muller handles the professional and personal threads of her stories with dexterity and fine suspensea pro in her happily continuing prime. The London Free Press

Edwin of the Iron Shoes

Ask the Cards a Question

There's Nothing to Be Afraid of

Somewhere in the City: Selected Stories

"Her stories crackle like few others on the mystery landscape."-San Francisco Chronicle

"One of the treasures of the genre."-Chicago Tribune

A new collection of Marcia Muller's best short fiction from the past twenty years, including hardboiled private-eye, horror, western, and psychological suspense stories.

Marcia Muller, a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, is the author of more than twenty novels. She has been awarded the Private Eye Writers of America Life Achievement Award; her books have been nominated for Best Crime Novel at the Edgars, and she has won the Anthony Boucher Award. She lives in California.

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