Marcia Muller

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

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....

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....

Bobby Foster, car-hop 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....

Sharon McCone intends to uncover the truth of her most baffling case, even when it awakens suspicions of her own marriage and that its bonds can easily become chains....

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

It looked like a lost cause. Convicted of a brutal society murder in 1956, Lis Benedict had served a long sentence and just been released from jail....

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

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

When a former sixties radical is murdered during a string of random sniper attacks, the All Souls Legal Cooperative must settle his surprisingly large estate....

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....

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....

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

A full-fledged pilot for several years, Sharon McCone is due for the biannual flight review required by the FAA....

The McCone Files gathers all of Sharon's short cases into a single volume covering her entire career as staff investigator at All Souls Legal Cooperative in San Francisco....

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

The Globe Apartments, six stories of decaying brick and concrete, rises above San Francisco's volatile Tenderloin district....

When private investigator Sharon McCone helps a flea market kingpin fend off a stalker, she's drawn into a netherworld of deal-making and thievery....

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....