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New York Times bestselling author, Marcia Muller, brings you another thrilling mystery with her famous private investigator, Sharon McCone.Sharon McCone, weary of San Francisco's persistent rainy weather, jumps at the chance to investigate sabotage on the set of a documentary film being shot on the island of Kauai. Based on the writings of Hawaiian scholar Elson Wellbright, the film has incited major controversy among some of Wellbright's family members who aren't anxious to see the project show more reach completion. Vandalism quickly escalates into big-time violence, and McCone discovers a world of family secrets, drug dealing, political insurgency, and murder in this new crime novel by one of the world's most beloved mystery writers.
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Good entry in a fine series. For a long time visitor, an interesting look back at Kaui, post-Iniki and pre-boom. Sharon sorts through a wealthy families troubled history to solve current and old mysteries.
C'mon man! It was a decent story if she had just left out the relationship b.s. It just didn't ring true for me at all. Plus, I didn't care for the book being set in Hawaii instead of northern California. Overall, it really left me flat.
film crew threatened on Hawaii and Sharon's relation with Hy tested
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Marcia Muller, novelist, short-story writer and anthologist, was born in Detroit in 1944. She attended the University of Michigan, where she studied writing. Edwin of the Iron Shoes (1977) was her first book featuring Sharon McCone, a female private eye strong enough to compete in the male-dominated crime genre. In 1993, Muller was given the show more Private Eye Writers of America Life Achievement Award, and the following year her novel Wolf in the Shadows won the Anthony Boucher Award and was nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Crime Novel. Muller is the co-author of the Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery series with Bill Pronzini. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- A Walk Through the Fire
- Original publication date
- 1999
- People/Characters
- Sharon McCone; Hy Ripinsky; Glenna Stanleigh; Peter Wellbright; Matthew Wellbright; Jillian Wellbright (show all 17); Celia Wellbright; Ben Mori; Stephanie Mori; Russ Tanner; Mona Davenport; Drew Wellbright; Elson Wellbright; Abigail Crew; Buzzy Malakaua; Gavin Ridley; Mick Savage
- Important places
- San Francisco, California, USA; Kaua'i, Hawai'i, USA; Honolulu, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA
- Dedication
- For Sharon DeLano with thanks for loaning Sharon McCone her given name and for thirty-seven years of friendship
- First words
- Forged by fire and cradled by water, the Hawaiian Islands are a study in extreme contrast.
- Quotations
- Then, when I saw his smug grin, I added, "Maybe."
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- English, German
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 19
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