Marcia Muller: Listen to the Silence (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
Upon the death of her father, San Francisco-based PI Sharon McCone discovers she's adopted and is determined to find her biological parents. She journeys to Idaho's Flathead Reservation for answers but discovers some locals who will stop at nothing to keep certain secrets hidden.

Marcia Muller: Listen to the Silence. Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 9781455567850 (March, 2016), eBook, 1 MB (ca. 342 p.), $4.99.

Marcia Muller: Listen to the Silence (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL
News of her father's death sends San Francisco P.I. Sharon McCone rushing to her family home. While going through his personal effects, McCone comes upon a shocking document, one that raises questions about her birth. The stunned, strong-willed investigator embarks on a search for the answers, yet from Montana's Flathead Reservation to a remote county in northern California, all she finds is an impregnable wall of lies and evasion-erected by the very people she loved. Now picking up the remnants of her shattered reality, McCone must solve the greatest mystery of her life-who she really is. But the trail for the absolute truth will lead her to the darkest secrets close to her heart... and a desperate killer who wants to silence her for good.

Marcia Muller: Listen to the Silence. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446609757 (May, 2001), 342 p., $6.99.

Marcia Muller: Listen to the Silence (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
In the aftermath of her father's death, Sharon McCone uncovers a family secret - she was adopted. She now faces her most urgent quest - to find her birth parents. To her dismay this takes her to the heart of a feud where murder, undisturbed for years, is now overlaid with fresh violence.

Marcia Muller: Listen to the Silence. The Women's Press, ISBN: 0704346729 (October, 2000), 289 p., £6.99.

Marcia Muller: Listen to the Silence (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
Marcia Muller's accialmed mysteries starring Sharon McCone have been called "one of the most consistently satisfying series in whodunit history (San Diego Union-Tribune). Her fictional territory is uniquely her own, and her creation of McCone, the first female gumshoe, changed the terrain of the genre forever. Now Mulier presents McCone's strongest, most personal story to date, as the detective investigates the secrets of her own past... and finds the darkest of revelations.

LISTEN TO THE SILENCE
For Sharon McCone, when one door opens, another shuts. In the midst of celebrating a joyous wedding, she gets word that her father has died. The news leads her to the rituals of death: the scattering of ashes, the sharing of grief, the sorting through a loved one's belongings. But for Sharon McCone the last of those acts leads to a discovery that will change everything...

The existence of a legal document, hinting at a family secret deliberately withheld from McCone, provokes a violent breach between McCone and her mother. It drives McCone to search for her family's roots, particularly those of her Shoshone great-grandmother. This emotionally fueled search takes her to Montana's Flathead Indian Reservation and, eventually, to a remote and sparsely populated county in northern California. There, obsessed with her own problems, she walks into a deadly fight between Indians trying to preserve their sacred lands and a high-powered resort developer.

Soon McCone is drawn into a conspiracy that includes the attempted murder of an activist lawyer and threats on her own life. No one is talking -- and McCone must learn to listen to the silence: the questions carefully avoided; the pauses that point to a lie; the hesitation when emotions block the disclosure of a vital fact.

Now, her fears mounting, her anger growing, McCone enters a dark inner place, dogged by an identity crisis and a killer. An elusive adversary wants her to stop her search, and maybe she should. After all, the price for the whole truth -- a tale of shattered love, bigotry, and homicide -- may be the forfeiting of everything she believes... a fresh start... or the ignominious end that a bullet can bring.

LISTEN TO THE SILENCE is Marcia Muller at her most tantalizingly complex and dramatically intense -- the kind of writing that has taken her to the top of her craft, yet allows her to reach new literary helghts with each intriguing book.

Marcia Muller: Listen to the Silence. A Mystery. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892966890 (July, 2000), 289 p., $25.99 (?).