The best of the Sharon McCone stories… Follow Sharon’s investigations at Fort Point beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, to some of the seamy and prosperous areas throughout San Francisco … from Russian River to the Mammoth Lakes in isolated Inyo County … around the Bay Area and all the way up the coast to the windswept Pacific coast near the Oregon border. Re-live the San Francisco Earthquake of 1990, experience the turf-wars in the Mission District. Visit old friends like Ted Smalley, the All Souls Legal Cooperative secretary and later officer manager of McCone Investigations; Hank Zahn, founder of the San Francisco based law firm; best friend Rae Kelleher, who joined the cooperative as Sharon’s assistant and later followed her when she set up her own firm. And, of course, there are the characters who provide grist for Sharon McCone’s many and varied cases—the rich and the poor, criminals and victims, honest and conniving, peaceable and murderous, evil and altruistic. These characters are the heart and soul of Sharon McCone’s investigations. “Read Muller for her multilayered plot, for the tension, for her San Francisco setting, and, perhaps above all else, for Sharon McCone.”— Santa Rosa Press Democrat “Read Muller for her multilayered plot, for the tension, for her San Francisco setting, and, perhaps above all else, for Sharon McCone.”—Santa Rosa Press Democrat “Those encountering Muller’s work for the first time will be inspired to read all of the previous McCone books.”—Booklist “The action never stalls … For crime aficionados, Marcia Muller is always a welcome name, one to rely on when you want a sure thing.”—BookPage “Muller remains the best.”—San Diego Union-Tribune Marcia Muller was born September 28, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated in English from the University of Michigan and worked as a journalist at Sunset magazine. In 1977 she published her first Sharon McCone mystery, Edwin of the Iron Shoes, which she has since turned into a successful series of 36 books. Muller is married to fellow detective fiction author Bill Pronzini, with whom she has collaborated on several novels and short stories. In 1993, Muller was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America; in 2005 she was named Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America; and in 2010 she won the Shamus Award for best novel for Locked In.