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Sharon McCone has been asked by a former colleague to look into the plans of a large corporation to reopen a gold mine near the Nevada border that could seriously endanger the ecosystem of the area. Following a trail of bizarre happenings, disappearances, and a bullet-ridden body, McCone's trail leads to her to a Hong Kong industrialist . . . and a killer bent on large-scale destruction. Can McCone find her way through this twisted landscape to find the killer and prevent another murder?.
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I re-read this after going back and reading the earlier Sharon McCone novels and having that character background really made all the difference to me. I found this to be an excellent mystery novel on my second reading of it. The McCone character really starts to evolve in this one and become more fully rounded. The introduction of the Hy Rapinsky character put it over the top for me. Oh, yeah, and it was a good story to boot.
Helping Anne-Marie with some environmental issues in N Eastern CA, McCone meets Ripinsky. Well, more of a collision than a meeting. Her mother declares herself liberated and Rae moves up. Her life changes not withstanding, she unearths some unexpected culprits. Always a good entertaining read in an interesting CA locale with historic overtones.
A good mystery, very evocative of an unusual landscape and the story where Sharon McCone meets Hy Ripinsky.
murder related to development near Lake Mono, Sharan McCone
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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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- Canonical title*
- Echo uit het verleden
- Original title
- Where Echoes Live
- Original publication date
- 1991
- People/Characters
- Sharon McCone; Anne-Marie Altman; Hy Ripinsky; Ned Sanderson; Rose Wittington; Lily Nickles (show all 18); Earl Hopwood; Michael "Mick" Erickson; Margot Erickson; Lionel Ong; Marcy Cheung; Alvin Knight; Hank Zahn; Rae Kelleher; Ted Smalley; Katie McCone; George Kostakos; Kristen Lark
- Important places
- Tufa Lake, California (fictional); San Francisco, California, USA
- Epigraph*
- Marcia Muller is de moeder van de moderne vrouwelijke privé-detective.
- Dedication
- For Virginia and William Campbell Gault
- First words
- Tufa Lake lies in the high desert of northeastern California, only miles from the Nevada border.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It was time to find out how good Hy and I would be together.
- Original language*
- Amerikanisch
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