I started to read this book thought it was quite good and decided to check up how many books there are in this series since I'm new to it. The Color of Fear is book 32. Yikes, let's face it there is a lot of history between the characters and here I come stumbling into it and trying to make sense of it all. However, it was not that hard, despite all new names, relationships, and past events. I'm actually a bit impressed that I so easily could get into the story, keep the characters apart and enjoy the book. It's not always that easy when you start with a book with that many books previously published.

The Color of Fear was for me a fast read, it's not a thick book, and the story is pretty straightforward, not a book with many twists or shocking revelations. However, I enjoyed reading it because of its simplicity and interesting families ties with Sharon McCone having two families since she was adopted as a baby. It's a book that made me curious to read more, read the books from the beginning to discover the story from its start.

For me was The Color of Fear a perfect between the books kind of reading. I read it fast, and I quite enjoyed for a moment reading something lighter and I wouldn't mind reading more books in the series.

I want to thank the publisher for providing me with a free copy for an honest review!
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I still enjoy Marcia Müller, although the books are getting very referential to previous books in the series. ( )

I’ve been reading the McCone books since, well, not super long after the series with “the first hard boiled female PI” began. This isn’t one of the better plotted or written ones, but it’s nice to check in and see Sharon (and Hy) just as feisty, independent yet surrounded by family (and hoooo boy is that family bigger now). And it’s a topical mystery as well, though the white nationalists in the story are not convincing. But hey, again, it’s nice to hang with McCone for a bit. ( )

Sharon McCone’s father, Elwood, is attacked in San Francisco and left for dead in what appears to be a racially motivated attack. Subsequent events against her agency and staff support this theory. It happens just prior to Christmas and is solved by New Year’s. It highlights an increasingly nasty side of our society as well as the ‘don’t get involved’ sector, but not in a preachy way by any means.

Like [Pulse] by [[Felix Francis]] the medical information is provided in detail on his head injuries including the treatment. Also both books discuss the brain condition locked-in, which McCone experienced in the book titled [Locked In]. The difference is Muller adds the information through the plot discussion. Francis made the medical details a sub-set of the plot. I preferred Muller’s treatment (no pun intended).

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2018-1-4 ( )

I won this book in a giveaway and have had it for awhile so I knew I needed to read and review it soon. It was a quick and entertaining read although I definitely got the feeling I should have read the books prior to this one. Besides that though I was engrossed in Sharon's hard headed meet them head on attitude and hreatful for the escape from reality over the Thanksgiving weekend. ( )