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A passable murder mystery. It is pretty far along in the series about PI Sharon Macrone, but I didn't feel like I needed to have read any of the previous books. The characters were pretty flat or caricatures. This book is all about hitting the plot points. The details you get about Sharon and her friend Linnea are more telling than showing.

I felt like this is a murder mystery of the Harlequin novel variety. I expect reading other books in the series, it would follow the same path. It was a very quick read so it had that going for it.

Not impressed. I won't be looking for anything else by this author. I picked it up because one of the characters is a fortune teller and it sounded like it would be fun. But meh.

I'm a big fan of this character so went back to read a couple books that are earlier in the series. This one is not one of Muller's better efforts, but it does show some development of the Sharon McCone character and back story. Overall, good story and I enjoyed it.

Sharon McCone, fencing ring operates out of center for blind

Kirkus Reviews Tough-veneered Sharon McCone, who trembled her private-eye way through Edwin of the Iron Shoes (1977), is now getting to hate going home to her apartment in a frowsy San Francisco neighborhood. Not only is houseguest Linnea, an old chum, drowning divorce sorrows in self-pity and cheap wine. Even worse, neighbor Molly Antonio has been strangled--and also to be murdered is neighbor Anya Neverman, an ugly fortune-teller who greets visitors with a gun. Among the suspects: Molly's husband Gus, who works for the nearby Sunrise Blind Center; Herb Clemente, the Center's ambitious, bitter administrator; Anya's ex-con husband, who lives in the Center's basement for no apparent reason. And ultimately Sharon, while uncovering a show more mini-network trafficking in stolen goods, will effect a nick-of-time rescue of Linnea. Lots of stalking around--but Sharon remains a tepid heroine, not much helped here by plot and characters that are mildly interesting at best.
(Kirkus Reviews, June 1, 1982) show less