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Pennies on a Dead Woman's Eyes (1992)

by Marcia Muller

Series: Sharon McCone (13)

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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. Then in a last desperate attempt to clear the Benedict name, her daughter Judy convinces All Souls Legal Cooperative to take her mother's case before the Historical Tribunal. Sharon McCone loves a challenge but has little affection for the cold and unlikable Lis. Then, suddenly, the woman in question is dead, a vicious threat is scrawled in red paint across the front of Sharon's house, and San Francisco's #1 P.I. is following a fresh trail of death that leads back to a wild debutante, a prestigious think tank, and the power of politics of the '50s ... all in search of a killer who has engineered a fatal cover-up and built a brilliant career on murder.

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Not one of her best, but still a solid story. I found some of the characters to be very flat and unrealistic, though. ( )
  AliceAnna | Dec 16, 2022 |
Now that convicted killer Lis Benedict is out of prison after 36 years, her daughter Judy wants her mother's case re-opened.

McCone investigates, and learns much about the social and political attitudes at the time of the killing.
While Sharon brings hidden details to light the connection to the murder is tenuous until a mock trial is conducted. Emotions and fears of the participants free the truth but at a high cost. ( )
  Bookish59 | Jan 24, 2015 |
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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:

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. Then in a last desperate attempt to clear the Benedict name, her daughter Judy convinces All Souls Legal Cooperative to take her mother's case before the Historical Tribunal. Sharon McCone loves a challenge but has little affection for the cold and unlikable Lis. Then, suddenly, the woman in question is dead, a vicious threat is scrawled in red paint across the front of Sharon's house, and San Francisco's #1 P.I. is following a fresh trail of death that leads back to a wild debutante, a prestigious think tank, and the power of politics of the '50s ... all in search of a killer who has engineered a fatal cover-up and built a brilliant career on murder.

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