Sharon McCone mysteries
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 1
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Private eye Sharon McCone investigates the death of an elderly antique dealer in San Francisco.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 2
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There's trouble in Sharon McCone's quiet San Francisco apartment building. Madame Anya, with her cards, her tamed crow, and her candles, had predicted evil for Molly Antonio. Linnea Carraway, drinking heavily and careening in the wake of a divorce, had argued with her. Now the sweet, elderly lady lies dead in her apartment. Linnea, last to see Molly alive, is the prime suspect, and if Sharon means to clear her best friend, she has to find the murderer...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 3
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To tourists, bay-windowed Victorian mansions are quaint, peaceful symbols of old San Francisco, but on the secluded hill above Steiner Street, the gingerbread has sparked a bitter battle. Ambitious developers are pushing for restoration, and residents are fighting for their homes-until a controversial restorationist is found dead on the job, awash in garish house paint.
Private investigator Sharon McCone is called in only to discover a second bitter...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 4
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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...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 5
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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....
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 6
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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 Tenderloins shadowy underworld is determined to drive the newcomers out. The suspects range from the colorful to the dangerous: a poetry-loving...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 7
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Appleby Island, once the magnificent home of a tycoon and planter, is a place of history and mystery in the Sacramento delta. Its story includes hints of tragedy, fueling rumors that ghosts still walk its derelict orchards. Now Patsy McCone, her new lover, and a group of investors are turning the old mansion into an elegant bed and breakfast. Summoned by her eccentric younger sister, San Francisco's number one PI Sharon McCone arrives in the teeth...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 8
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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 sere 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 of answers takes her from Wilkonson's sullen brood on Burning Oak Ranch, to the eccentric havoc of a household in the Haight,...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 9
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Bobby Foster, carhop 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 number one PI Sharon McCone behind the footlights into the super-charged arena of anxious club owners and aspiring young hopefuls,...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 10
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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.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 11
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Private investigator Sharon has been asked by former colleague Anne-Marie-now counsel for the California Coalition for Environmental Preservation--to look into the plans of the Transpacific Corp. to reopen a gold mine near the ghost town of Promiseville.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 12
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[1992]
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Sharon McCone reluctantly agrees to take Lis Benedict's case before San Francisco's Historical Tribunal, a quasi-legal body dedicated to righting old wrongs.
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Wolf in the shadows , Sharon McCone mysteries volume 13
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 15
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1995.
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PI Sharon McCone of San Francisco goes after a terrorist who is bombing diplomatic posts in the U.S. He is threatening to bomb the consulate of an Arab country, and in arranging protection Sharon becomes involved in a kidnaping as well.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 16
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1996.
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San Francisco PI Sharon McCone investigates threatening letters to a famous country music singer from a woman who was also a singer and with whom he had an affair. A tale of vengeance ending in bloodshed.
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Both ends of the night , Sharon McCone mysteries volume 17
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While other people sleep , Sharon McCone mysteries volume 18
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 19
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1999.
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Detective Sharon McCone of San Francisco flies to Hawaii to investigate sabotage on a film set. The film is about Hawaiian legends and the suspects include Hawaiian nationalists.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 20
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2000.
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After Sharon McCone's father dies of a heart attack, she finds, in a box of legal papers, a petition for adoption of an infant who has been known from the day of adoption as Sharon Elizabeth McCone.
23) Vanishing point
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 23
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2006.
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"Sharon McCone is hired to investigate the 22-year-old cold-case of a housewife and artist who vanished inexplicably in the central part of California"--Provided by publisher.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 24
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[2007]
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"The history of corruption may jeopardize Sharon McCone's marriage, but uncovering the secrets of a mysterious firm may be the only way she can save her husband's life, and her own"--Provided by publisher.
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Burn out , Sharon McCone mysteries volume 25
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26) Locked in
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 26
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2009.
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"After being shot in the head, Sharon McCone suffers from locked-in syndrome, which involves almost total paralysis but an alert conscious mind. As Sharon lies in her hospital bed, furiously trying to break out of her body's prison and discover her attacker's identity, all the members of her agency fan out to find the reason why she was assaulted"--Provided by publisher.
28) City of whispers
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 28
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2011.
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Private eye Sharon McCone receives an e-mail asking for help from her emotionally disturbed half-brother, Darcy Blackhawk, but he fails to reply to her response. As her search widens, Sharon uncovers a connection to an unsolved murder of a young woman who was heiress to a multi-million dollar fortune.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 30
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2014.
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When she is hired to investigate devil worshippers performing human sacrifices in San Francisco, private detective Sharon McCone discovers what her clients are really up to and goes undercover to find the truth.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 31
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2016.
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"Finally settled into their new home after losing their house in a fire, and fully established in their new shared offices, private investigator Sharon McCone and her business partner husband Hy are starting to feel comfortable. That calm is shattered when Hy's former colleague Gage Renshaw--a shady troublemaker who they had presumed dead reappears, and it's unclear what he wants from his prosperous former associate. Meanwhile, Sharon has a new client...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 32
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2017.
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When her father is left in a coma by a racially driven beating during the holiday season, private investigator Sharon McCone resolves to bring the attackers to justice, only to find herself targeted by hate-filled, racist threats.
33) The breakers
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On a foggy summer morning, private investigator Sharon McCone receives a call from her former neighbors, the Curleys. Their usually dependable daughter Chelle hasn't been answering their calls for weeks. Would Sharon check on her? Sharon arranges to visit the building Chelle had been living in and rehabbing in southwest San Francisco. Once it was a nightclub and bar, she learns, and a favorite destination for the city's elite during Prohibition....
34) Ice and stone
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 34
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2021.
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"When two women are brutally murdered in northern California, their deaths are the latest atrocities in a surge of violence targeting Indigenous women in the area. Despite all evidence to the contrary, local officials rule the deaths isolated incidents, and they soon join the ranks of other unsolved homicides, quickly forgotten by law enforcement. Private Investigator Sharon McCone knows better, and so does the organization known as Crimes Against...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 35
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20240423
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"San Francisco is home to more than 200 privately owned streets. Most are alleyways, but a select few look torn straight from the pages of a magazine. Lined with mansions and elaborate gardens, the properties are luxurious and perfectly maintained; security guards patrol the grounds to keep the curious at bay. Few know of these exclusive enclaves, but those who do prowl for availability, ready to make a grab for the precious real estate if opportunity...
36) The McCone Files
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume Related works
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Marcia Muller is, as Sue Grafton pointed out, the creator of the modern female private eye story, and Sharon McCone is one of the finest and most sensitive of all current sleuths. Sharon came upon the scene in 1977 with Edwin of the Iron Shoes, the first of fifteen novels and fifteen short stories filled with cluing and caring. The McCone Files gathers all of Sharon's short cases into a single volume covering her entire career as staff investigator...
37) The McCone Files
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume Related works
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Marcia Muller is, as Sue Grafton pointed out, the creator of the modern female private eye story, and Sharon McCone is one of the finest and most sensitive of all current sleuths. Sharon came upon the scene in 1977 with Edwin of the Iron Shoes, the first of fifteen novels and fifteen short stories filled with cluing and caring. The McCone Files gathers all of Sharon's short cases into a single volume covering her entire career as staff investigator...
38) The McCone Files
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume Related works
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Marcia Muller is, as Sue Grafton pointed out, the creator of the modern female private eye story, and Sharon McCone is one of the finest and most sensitive of all current sleuths. Sharon came upon the scene in 1977 with Edwin of the Iron Shoes, the first of fifteen novels and fifteen short stories filled with cluing and caring. The McCone Files gathers all of Sharon's short cases into a single volume covering her entire career as staff investigator...