Games to Keep the Dark Away: Amazon.ca: Marcia Muller: Books

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Suspicious deaths at an exclusive hospice, a missing social worker, a town full of secretive, hostile residents, and a body on the beach lead Sharon McCone down a deadly trail of secret lives and into mortal danger. Reissue.

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3.0 out of 5 stars oh no....., Jun 13 2002

By	Ted Weimann "Warrior Speed" (Vancouver, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Sharon McCone drinks to much!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Sharon investigates a disappearance, Jun 11 2002

By	Karen Potts (Lake Jackson, Texas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Investigator Sharon McCone receives a call from a famous photographer, asking her to find his missing roommate. She has a hard time discerning exactly what their relationship is, but proceeds on her investigation. She traces the missing roommate to her hometown and then finds her dead. The suspects range from the photographer himself to several of her co-workers at a Hospice where she used to work and where several people died under suspicious circumstances. As usual, McCone tracks down the murderer, but not before putting herself in danger and picking up a new boyfriend along the way. This is another solid entry in this long-running series.

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3.0 out of 5 stars #4 of 22 (so far) Sharon McCone Private Eye -- average, May 5 2002

By	Gerald M. Bull "Jerry Bull" (Fairview, TN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The 22 books to date in Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone series span from 1977, so this is one of the earlier ones (1984) in a set that obviously has staying power. Our leading lady is a full-time employee of a law firm where she handles investigations along with more routine paralegal work, but she seemed pretty free to roam around as she chose, with or without a paying client. Sharon's a just-thirty single private eye in the mode of Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone or Karen Kijewski's Kat Colorado and reminded me of both of them, although indeed Sharon may have come first.

Our copy of the hardback was just 150 pages long, so it wasn't too long nor too complicated a tale. There seemed to be few recurring support characters and most of the story took place in California, but away from home base in San Francisco. The plot featured a couple of murders and some older questionable deaths spiced things up a little, but in general we found the book, while reasonably enjoyable, a little lackluster by modern standards. We might be inclined to check out a more recent work and see if that might be more satisfying before reading the set from the start forward. So -- not bad, but a rather typical entree in the female private eye genre...

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4.0 out of 5 stars Sharon heads south in the 4th book of the series
Marcia Muller pioneered the female PI sub-genre with Sharon McCone. For that alone, true mystery fans need to read at least a few of the books in the series. Read more

Published on May 16 2001 by Carol Peterson Hennekens

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully crafted
Sharon McCone is one of the most interesting female sleuths in the genre - and among the most honest and likeable. Read more

Published on Dec 28 2000 by Helen

4.0 out of 5 stars it got me hooked
This is the first I read of the McCone books. What I liked about it was that it was a quick read, yet it introduced numerous characters and kept you guessing. Read more

Published on May 21 2000 by Janie

4.0 out of 5 stars Twisting plot & an easy read
This is the 1st Muller book that I've really, really enjoyed. The others were so-so only (I'm reading them in order). This one was great! Read more

Published on Aug 18 1999