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"Deadly Anniversaries celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Mystery Writers of America with a collection of stories from some of the top names in crime fiction. Each author puts a unique spin on what it means to recognize a certain day or event each year. By the time this group...

A knock on the door in the middle of the night. It can only be bad news, and it is: Sharon's father Elwood has been the victim of a vicious, racially-motivated attack. A nationally recognized Shoshone Indian artist, he'd been visiting Sharon for the holidays, browsing for gifts i...

"When the bodies of two Indigenous women are found in the wilderness of northern California, it is only the latest horrific development in a string of similar crimes in the area. Despite all evidence to the contrary, officials rule the deaths isolated incidents, which soon join t...

"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.

After being shot in the head and suffering locked-in syndrome, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone is struggling to regain control over her body. But her relationships are suffering. Her husband is impatient with her refusal to accept help; some of her colleagues doubt her ab...

"Here is Marcia Muller's stalwart heroine Sharon McCone as you've never seen her before, in a new novel set in California's high desert country"--Provided by the publisher.

Three years ago, Caro Warrick was acquitted for the murder of her best friend Amelia Bettencourt, but the lingering doubts of everyone around Caro are affecting her life. Sharon McCone is confident that she can succeed where other detectives have failed, but when Caro is brutally...

Sabina Carpenter and John Quinncannon are no stranger to mysteries. In the five years since they opened Carpenter and Quinncannon, Professional Detective Services, they have solved dozens, but one mystery has eluded even them: Sherlock Holmes or, rather, the madman claiming his i...

"When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided attention. The questions her pa...

"When a woman who is the only witness to a murder is violently targeted by the culprit's family, Carpenter and Quincannon are forced to split up to outmaneuver two tricky con men and protect the woman's life, a situation that is complicated by Quincannon's growing feelings for he...

The disappearance of a young recovering addict in southwest San Francisco leads private investigator Sharon McCone to the site of a Prohibition-era nightclub, where she discovers a ghastly chamber of horrors.

Shot in the head by an unknown assailant, Sharon McCone finds herself trapped by locked-in syndrome: almost total paralysis but an alert, conscious mind. Since the late-night attack occurred at her agency's offices, the natural conclusion was that it was connected to one of the f...

"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 G...

Fifteen short stories of the West with a variety of characters from the familiar figures of lawmen and gunfighters to some seldom featured characters such as a traveling apothecary, a coffin trimmer, and a prison warden with some unexpected twists.

While the Dickens Days festival of Queensville, Michigan, is in full swing, food columnist and vintage cookware collector Jaymie Leighton must find out who plotted a murder at the Queensville Historic Manor and took the spirit out of the season.

"Among the highlights of this award–-winning collection is “Sweet Cactus Wine‚” in which a widow fends off the attention of an unwanted suitor with a little assistance from a giant saguaro cactus. In “The Cyaniders”, written especially fo...

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.