Marcia Muller

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 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....

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

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

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....

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.

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....

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....

New York Times bestselling author Marcia Muller is at her best in The Breakers, as she digs into a particularly disturbing corner of San Francisco's history—one that Sharon McCone may not escape alive....

Joanna Stark thought she had finally left her troubled past behind....

Joanna Stark can't seem to forgive and forget; what happened 20 years ago still plagues her....

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....

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

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

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