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Picture Salmon Bay: an isolated, run-down northern California village, home to an idle fleet of fishing boats, a deserted amusement park, and a handful of secretive, even hostile residents. When P.I. Sharon McCone arrives in search of one of the town's wayward daughters, the trail leads to the thriving resort of Port San Marco. McCone believes that the missing woman, a former social worker named Jane Anthony, was involved in the suspicious deaths of three terminally ill patients at an show more exclusive hospice. But the elusive Jane Anthony turns up all too soon – washed up beneath a rotting pier in Salmon Bay. McCone discovers that no one – not her client, a reclusive photographer, nor Jane's mother, nor her hospice employers – wants to find out why she died. Then the killer strikes again, Jane's secret life comes into focus, and McCone finds out that someone wants her out of the way – permanently!. show less
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This is from an old, old series that I never systematically read. I think this is listed as the third. Not bad, but not terrific either. And the experience was somewhat compromised by the obvious 'slap and scan' text, as every once in a while I had to interpret which word had been corrupted by OCR errors.
Good solid early work from Muller. I enjoyed the story.
quick read, entertaining but not too memorable.
Suspicious deaths at an exclusive hospice, a missing social worker, a town full of secretive, hostile residents, and a body on the beach lead Sharon McCone down a deadly trail of secret lives and into mortal danger. New boyfriend is disc jockey.
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116+ Works 14,327 Members
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
- Games to Keep the Dark Away
- Original publication date
- 1984
- People/Characters
- Sharon McCone; Abe Snelling; Jane Anthony; Liz Schaff; Sylvia Anthony; John Cala (show all 12); Don Del Boccio; Ann Bates; Allen Keller; Hank Zahn; Susan Tellenberg; Andy Smith
- Important places
- San Francisco, California, USA; Port San Marco, California, USA; Salmon Bay, California, USA
- Dedication
- For my mother,
Kathryn S. Muller,
And in memory of my father,
Henry J. Muller - First words
- The wind whipped my jacket open as I went up to the guardrail.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He dedicated the first song to me. It was called "Somewhere Between Lovers and Friends."
- Original language*
- English
*Some information comes from Common Knowledge in other languages. Click "Edit" for more information.
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- 342
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- Reviews
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- (3.53)
- Languages
- English, German, Japanese, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 17
- ASINs
- 9
