Burn Out

Author:   Marcia Muller
Publisher:   Little, Brown & Company
ISBN:  

9780446581073


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   04 December 2008
Replaced By:   9780446400374
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained


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Traumatised by the events that took place in The Ever-Running Man, Sharon McCone decides to take an extended holiday at her ranch in California's high desert country. Though she plans to contemplate her future, McCone soon becomes distracted by a troubled yet highly secretive Native American woman. When traces of violence at an abandoned resort lead directly back to the mysterious woman, the county sheriff's deputy handling the case asks McCone for assistance. The investigation leads McCone across the state and back to her own ranch where imminent danger lies closer than she ever expected and where her future and her life itself may hang in the balance.

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Author:   Marcia Muller
Publisher:   Little, Brown & Company
Imprint:   Grand Central Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9780446581073


ISBN 10:   0446581070
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   04 December 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Replaced By:   9780446400374
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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...A crisply woven plot KIRKUS REVIEWS


Sharon McCone fights depression.Nine months after escaping death by a mere five seconds (The Ever-Running Man, 2007, etc.), San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone retreats to the ranch her husband Hy Ripinsky owns in the high Sierras and contemplates closing her agency. A glimmer of her usual peskiness shows through when she spies Boz Sheppard tossing Amy Perez, the ranch manager's niece, out of his pickup shortly before Amy disappears. Offering to help look for her, McCone wanders into a series of Perez tragedies. Amy's older sister Hayley, who decamped for Vegas years ago and became a hooker, secretly returns, makes a will leaving major money to Amy and is shot dead in a trailer park. Amy's mom Miri, a bellicose drunk/slut who'd been shunned by her family after a rape when she was a teen, also disappears and dies violently. An old beau of Hayley's is shot in the back and left to rot in the desert. Bud Smith, a registered sex offender who may have taken the rap for a relative, is also killed. Tracking down people and alibis via the moccasin telegraph, McCone sorts through the family's Paiute heritage, but it will take some serious piloting to get her out of a jam and bounce her back to normalcy.A bit more self-deprecating humor than usual from McCone and a crisply woven plot. For those readers tired of the McCone-Ripinsky romance, there's much ado about a burgeoning relationship between McCone and a snickering horse. (Kirkus Reviews)


'...A crisply woven plot' - KIRKUS REVIEWS


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Marcia Muller has been the recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award.

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