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.

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

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....

As the peace of this small town is shattered, murder stains Cape Perdido, and those who stand tall for a cause may be swept away by the current of a town's ugly truths and a killer's revenge....

A hard, four-hour drive north of San Francisco leads to sparsely populated Soledad County, a combination of spectacular seashore, inland forests, and small towns steeped in gold-mining history....

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

Shortly after his arrival in Signal Port, California, a town that has never recovered from the unsolved murder of two young families 13 years ago, another nightmare begins....

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....

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....

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....

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

A debutante's missing body, murder most foul, and weird spectrallights in the fog make for a thrilling gas light-era tale of mystery and detection....

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....

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....

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....

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

McCone and Friends contains three stories told by McCone herself, as well as a novella and a short story narrated by the agency’s investigator Rae Kelleher....

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....

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

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