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It's a cold Sunday in San Francisco. Sharon McCone's alone on a routine surveillance job, following a man named Frank Wilkonson through the city's lush horticultural hot spots to the serene foothills of the Diablos. But when she returns to find her kindly old client in a pool of blood, nothing she's learned explains it. The search for answers takes her from Wilkonson's sullen brood on Burning Oak Ranch, to the eccentric havoc of a household in the Haight, to Golden Gate Park and the show more desperate digs of the homeless. Unraveling the threads that link a homeless man, a pair of prominent activists, a wayward rancher, and a mysterious missing beauty, Sharon is plunged into the depths of domestic mayhem... entering a realm where dreams shatter and marriage leads to bloody murder.. show less
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Pretty good. Kept my attention to the end and didn't give away the ending. Pretty good characters too.
a surveillance case becomes a murder
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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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Fischer Taschenbuch (14713)
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- Canonical title
- There's Something in a Sunday
- Original title
- There's Something in a Sunday
- Original publication date
- 1989
- People/Characters
- Sharon McCone; Rudy Goldring; Frank Wilkonson; Jane Wilkonson; Irene Lasser; Vicky Cushman (show all 12); Gerry Cushman; Rae Kelleher; Walt Griscom; Hal Johnstone; Hank Zahn; Jack Stuart
- Important places
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Dedication
- For Sara Ann Freed
- First words
- Sunday morning dawned gray and misty outside the steam-clouded windows of the coffee shop on Lombard Street.
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- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.68)
- Languages
- English, French, German
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 17
- ASINs
- 9
