A Sharon McCone mystery Series

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. By the author of Both Ends of the Night.

Skeleton in the Closet

by Marcia Muller

Published 1 January 2012

The Night Searchers

by Marcia Muller

Published 1 January 2014

When new clients Jay and Camilla Givens come to Sharon McCone with Camilla's stories of devil worshippers performing human sacrifices in San Francisco, the detective is skeptical, to say the least. However, when she discovers that Jay is involved with the treasure hunting group The Night Searchers, she starts looking into what exactly he and the other participants are up to after dark. As she digs deeper into the Searchers, Sharon joins their ranks in order to find out more-while someone is searching for her.

There's Something in a Sunday

by Marcia Muller

Published 1 December 1989

The Cheshire Cat's Eye

by Marcia Muller

Published 1 January 1983

The brash and confident Sharon McCone is plunged into intrigue and murder as her snooping leads her to San Francisco's 'Painted Ladies', the landmark district of gaudily coloured Victorian houses. Responding to her old friend Jake Kaufmann's urgent call, Sharon is shocked to find him dead in a pool of red paint in the house he was restoring. Assuming that his killer will be found among the glamorous, fashionable figures of San Francisco's architectural community, Sharon is embroiled in the internal battles between the matronly, upper-crust preservationists, and the flamboyant defenders of the psychedelic houses. Her investigation narrows to the pursuit of a single, very valuable clue: a one-off Tiffany lamp with the grinning face of the Cheshire Cat emblazoned among the stained-glass leaves. But it is when Sharon herself is implicated in Jake's death that the pressure peaks - and it takes all of her daring to prove her innocence. Love, not money, is the motive for murder in this novel, the third in the Sharon McCone mystery series.

The McCone Files

by Marcia Muller

Published 1 October 2011

Pennies on a Dead Woman's Eyes

by Marcia Muller

Published 1 July 1992

The latest Sharon McCone mystery, in which she re-investigates the case of a woman who was convicted of murder in 1956, and who is released still protesting her innocence. McCone finds herself the target of someone who does not want the case reopened.

Eye of the Storm

by Marcia Muller

Published January 1989

Listen to the Silence

by Marcia Muller

Published 1 July 2000

When Sharon McCone receives the distressing news of her father's death, she immediately goes to San Diego to help her brother scatter their father's ashes and settle his affairs. But while going through his legal papers, Sharon uncovers a 1959 petition for the adoption of a Baby Girl Smith -- an infant who, from the day of adoption, has been known as Sharon Elizabeth McCone. Now, determined to find her biological parents, Sharon finds herself deep in Idaho's Flathead Reservation. Met with resentment, she discovers a few locals who will stop at nothing to make sure certain secrets are kept hidden.

Locked In

by Marcia Muller

Published 1 October 2009

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 firm's cases. 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.
Meanwhile, Sharon becomes a locked-in detective, sorting through the clues her colleagues discover. As the case draws to a surprising and even shocking conclusion, Sharon's husband, Hy, must decide whether or not to surrender to his own violent past and exact fatal vengeance when the person responsible is identified.

Looking for Yesterday

by Marcia Muller

Published 1 January 2012

Three years ago, Caro Warrick was acquitted for the murder of her best friend Amelia Bettencourt, but the lingering doubts of everyone around Caro is affecting her life. Sharon McCone is confident that she can succeed where other detectives have failed (though at times it's hard to shake her own misgivings about what happened), but when Caro is brutally beaten right at Sharon's doorstep, the investigation takes on a whole new course. How many more people remain at risk until Amelia's murderer is finally caught?

McCone and Friends

by Marcia Muller

Published 1 November 1999

Leave a Message for Willie

by Marcia Muller

Published 1 January 1984

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.

The Breakers

by Marcia Muller

Published 14 August 2018

"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. But there's something sinister about the space, and Sharon quickly discovers why. Lurking behind a divider screen is a ghastly art gallery: portraits and caricatures of mass murderers, long ago and recent. Jack the Ripper. The Zodiac and Zebra killers of the 1970s. Charles Manson and his girls. Scott Peterson, who killed his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumped her body into the Bay on Christmas Eve. What, an alarmed Sharon wonders, was Chelle doing in this chamber of horrors? And where is she now?"--

The Breakers

by Marcia Muller

Published 16 August 2018

Private investigator Sharon McCone returns in New York Times bestselling author Marcia Muller's latest page-turning mystery!

"[Marcia Muller's] stories crackle like few others on the mystery landscape." -San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

"Muller undoubtedly remains one of today's best mystery writers." -Associated Press

Someone Always Knows

by Marcia Muller

Published 5 July 2016

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 with a desire to rid a derelict house he's just bought in the city's notorious Western Addition neighborhood from intruders, drug users, and thugs. However, the abandoned house holds its share of secrets, and soon Sharon is contending with more than a simple eyesore as she searches for the individual who is obsessed with destroying her life....

While Others Sleep

by Marcia Muller

Published 1 August 1998

A psychological thriller featuring Sharon McCone, who embarks on a game of cat-and-mouse with a malevolent woman pretending to be her. The woman always appears to be one step ahead of McCone - until she makes a fatal error. From the author of THE BROKEN PROMISE LAND, WOLF IN THE SHADOWS and TILL THE BUTCHERS CUT HIM DOWN.