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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 9
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Private eye Sharon McCone takes on a routine surveillance as a favor to a friend, and her target's day proceeds normally until he is murdered.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 11
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Investigator Sharon McCone probes the strange will of murder victim Perry Hilderly, who had disinherited his children to leave his fortune to four strangers, and uncovers a tangled web of old secrets leading back to the Vietnam War.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 12
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Since the Gold Rush, California prospectors have siphoned off the waters of isolated Tufa Lake, exposing the fragile, otherworldly mineral formation of the lake basin. Now a local environmental group seeks to block the latest incursion by developers - a massive mining operation funded by TransPacific, a U.S.-Hong Kong interest that seems to be behind a series of break-ins, disappearances, and shady land deals. Into this stark lunar landscape walks...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 14
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Just when All Souls Legal Cooperative hands her a promotion that will tie her to an uninspiring desk job, Sharon McCone's main squeeze, Hy Ripinsky, disappears. An environmentalist, he seemingly consented to deliver a two million dollar ransom demanded by the kidnappers of a biotech biggie. Putting her career crisis on hold, Sharon discovers Hy's abandoned plane, wrecked rental car and the intrigues of a shady international security firm.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
c1994
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Sharon McCone has struck out on her own and one of her first clients is T.J. "Suitcase" Gordon, known as a turnaround artist who creates profits and enemies while reviving failed businesses. After McCone saves Gordon from an explosion, he performs another kind of turnaround: he vanishes.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
c1997
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Flight instructor Matty is murdered after she confides in private eye Sharon McCone that her boyfriend, John Seabrook, is missing, and Sharon's search for the killer leads her to a frozen wilderness.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 19
Pub. Date
c1998
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It's an identity crisis for PI Sharon McCone when she discovers that someone is pretending to be her. To make matters worse, her office manager, Ted Smalley has been acting oddly. McCone gets caught in a game of cat and mouse through the nightlife of San Francisco.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
1999
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While investigating sabotage on the set of a controversial film in Hawaii, San Francisco sleuth Sharon McCone finds a violent world of long-buried family secrets, drug dealing, political machinations, and murder.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 21
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When Sharon McCone's father dies, she learns she has been adopted, and sets off to find her true identity. Her quest takes her to Montana's Flathead Indian Reservation, where she discovers that her search has caused a resurgence of old hatreds.
14) Dead midnight
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 22
Pub. Date
2002
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Sharon McCone takes on a wrongful-death case in which a grieving family is suing a company for the suicide of a young employee, but as her investigation progresses, she discovers that there may have been more to the death than meets the eye.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 23
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When one of her investigative operatives is arrested for major credit card fraud, Sharon McCone's efforts to prove the woman's innocence are complicated by evidence that supports her guilt and points to a larger conspiracy.
16) Vanishing point
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"Sharon McCone is hired to investigate the 22-year-old cold-case of a housewife and artist who vanished inexplicably in the central part of California"--Provided by publisher.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 25
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"The history of corruption may jeopardize Sharon McCone's marriage, but uncovering the secrets of a mysterious firm may be the only way she can save her husband's life, and her own"--Provided by publisher.
18) Burn out
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 26
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A chance encounter with a troubled, highly secretive Native American woman begins to haunt her dreams, and even though she is determined not to investigate anything during her stay--and perhaps not ever again--McCone is drawn into the plight of the young woman and her dysfunctional family. A murder and traces of violence at a deserted resort lead her across the desert and into Nevada, and finally to a remote and isolated ranch, where danger lies closer...
19) Locked in
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"After being shot in the head, Sharon McCone suffers from locked-in syndrome, which involves almost total paralysis but an alert conscious mind. As Sharon lies in her hospital bed, furiously trying to break out of her body's prison and discover her attacker's identity, all the members of her agency fan out to find the reason why she was assaulted"--Provided by publisher.
20) Coming back
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As she tries to recover from a debilitating injury, Sharon McCone seeks the truth behind the disappearance of a friend she made at physical therapy, a missing-persons case that could have a powerful effect on national security.