Marcia Muller

It looked like a lost cause. Convicted of a brutal society murder in 1956, Lis Benedict had served a long sentence and just been released from jail....

When private investigator Sharon McCone helps a flea market kingpin fend off a stalker, she's drawn into a netherworld of deal-making and thievery....

Appleby Island, once the magnificent home of a tycoon and planter, is a place of history and mystery in the Sacramento delta....

A full-fledged pilot for several years, Sharon McCone is due for the biannual flight review required by the FAA....

When a former sixties radical is murdered during a string of random sniper attacks, the All Souls Legal Cooperative must settle his surprisingly large estate....

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....

It's Sharon McCone's first case as staff investigator for All Souls Legal Cooperative....

Ricky Savage is Sharon McCone's brother-in-law, and the hottest country singer in the business....

A knock on the door in the middle of the night. It can only be bad news, and it is: Sharon's father, Elwood, has been the victim of a vicious, racially motivated attack....

In this twisting mystery in a New York Times bestselling series, pranks escalate into a deadly scheme that Private Investigator Sharon McCone must unravel—​before they claim her life.

New York Times bestselling author Marcia Muller is at her best in The Breakers, as she digs into a particularly disturbing corner of San Francisco's history—one that Sharon McCone may not escape alive....

Joanna Stark thought she had finally left her troubled past behind....

Joanna Stark can't seem to forgive and forget; what happened 20 years ago still plagues her....

When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden....

Settled in to their new home, private investigator Sharon McCone and her husband, Hy, are starting to feel comfortable. That calm is shattered when Hy's former colleague, Gage Renshaw, reappears....

Can the true identity of the Sherlock Holmes imposter be revealed at last? Listen to find out....

When new clients Jay and Camilla Givens come to Sharon McCone with Camilla's stories of devil worshippers performing human sacrifices in San Francisco, the detective is skeptical....

A debutante's missing body, murder most foul, and weird spectrallights in the fog make for a thrilling gas light-era tale of mystery and detection....

As the peace of this small town is shattered, murder stains Cape Perdido, and those who stand tall for a cause may be swept away by the current of a town's ugly truths and a killer's revenge....

Bobby Foster, car-hop at the chic Cafe Comedie, is going to the gas chamber. He's already confessed to the murder of Tracy Kostakos, the club's rising star. But two years after the crime, Tracy's body is still missing....