Marcia Muller

In this twisting mystery in a New York Times bestselling series, pranks escalate into a deadly scheme that Private Investigator Sharon McCone must unravel—​before they claim her life.

Mystery Writers of America is proud to present Deadly Anniversaries, a collection of crime and mystery stories from some of the best contemporary authors, all of whom have been invited to put their own unique spin on what it means to recognize a certain day or event every year....

It's Sharon McCone's first case as staff investigator for All Souls Legal Cooperative....

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....

Appleby Island, once the magnificent home of a tycoon and planter, is a place of history and mystery in the Sacramento delta....

Complacency can make a person careless, and Sharon McCone, who makes crime her business, should know that better than most....

In The Bughouse Affair former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, undertake what initially appear to be two unrelated investigations....

It starts when Sharon McCone's acquaintance tells her that someone was pretending to be McCone at a party....

Private eye Sharon McCone receives an email asking for help from her emotionally disturbed half-brother, Darcy Blackhawk, but he fails to reply to her response....

Three years ago, Caro Warrick was acquitted for the murder of her best friend, Amelia Bettecourt, but the lingering doubts of everyone around Caro is adversely affecting her life....

There's trouble in Sharon McCone's quiet San Francisco apartment building....

Settled in to their new home, private investigator Sharon McCone and her husband, Hy, are starting to feel comfortable. That calm is shattered when Hy's former colleague, Gage Renshaw, reappears....

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....

Ricky Savage is Sharon McCone's brother-in-law, and the hottest country singer in the business....

Can the true identity of the Sherlock Holmes imposter be revealed at last? Listen to find out....

When her birth mother is critically injured in a hit-and-run accident, Sharon begins to understand that her search has caused a resurgence of old hatreds and fueled present-day violence....

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....

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....

P.I. Sharon McCone is sick and tired of San Francisco's persistent rainy weather, so she jumps at the chance to investigate the sabotage of a movie being filmed on the Hawaiian island of Kauai....

Traumatized by a recent life-or-death investigation, Sharon McCone flees to her ranch in California's high desert country to contemplate her future....