Marcia Muller: There's Something in a Sunday (USA 2011)

From the Publisher:
It's a cold Sunday in San Francisco. Sharon McCone's alone on a routine surveillance job, following a man named Frank Wilkonson through the city's lush horticultural hot spots to the sere foothills of the Diablos. But when she returns to find her kindly old client in a pool of blood, nothing she's learned explains it. The search for answers takes her from Wilkonson's sullen brood on Burning Oak Ranch, to the eccentric havoc of a household in the Haight, to Golden Gate Park and the desperate digs of the homeless. Unraveling the threads that link a homeless man, a pair of prominent activists, a wayward rancher, and a mysterious missing beauty, Sharon is plunged into the depths of domestic mayhem... entering a realm where dreams shatter and marriage leads to bloody murder.

Marcia Muller: There's Something in a Sunday. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Blackstone, ISBN: 9781609986186 (Decemer, 2011), eBook, 1 MB (ca. 230 p.), $6.99.

Marcia Muller: There's Something in a Sunday (USA 1995)

From the Publisher:
It's a cold Sunday in San Francisco. Sharon McCone's alone on a routine surveillance job, following a man named Frank Wilkonson through the city's lush horticultural hot spots to the sere foothills of the Diablos. But when she returns to find her kindly old client in a pool of blood, nothing she's learned explains it. The search for answers takes her from Wilkonson's sullen brood on Burning Oak Ranch, to the eccentric havoc of a household in the Haight, to Golden Gate Park and the desperate digs of the homeless. Unraveling the threads that link a homeless man, a pair of prominent activists, a wayward rancher, and a mysterious missing beauty, Sharon is plunged into the depths of domestic mayhem... entering a realm where dreams shatter and marriage leads to bloody murder.

Marcia Muller: There's Something in a Sunday. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Warner Books, ISBN: 0445408650 (August, 1995), 210 p., $5.50.

Marcia Muller: There's Something in a Sunday (USA 1990)

From the Publisher:
PRIVATE EYE SHARON McCONE TAKES on a routine surveillance one weekend as a favor to Rudy Goldring, a longtime client of her employer, the All Souls Legal Cooperative. She tails one Frank Wilkinson through Golden Gate Park's tropical gardens, the early morning flower market, and other horticultural land-marks. The man's business seems harmless and entirely personal, Sharon concludes... but when she arrives at Goldring's downtown office to report, she finds the elderly shirtmaker dead in a pool of blood.

Now caught in the middle of a murder investigation, Sharon decides it's time to visit Wilkinson's home turf. The town of Hollister is a dust bowl set among the foothills of the Diablo range, where ranching is the main vocation and minding your own business is the golden rule. There, Sharon unearths a tangle of sour relationships -some of the strands send her back to the city, straight to the middle of its community of upper-class activists, and deep into the world of the homeless...

Marcia Muller: There's Something in a Sunday. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0445408650 (April, 1990), 210 p., $3.95.

Marcia Muller: There's Something in a Sunday (USA 1989)

From the Publisher:
In Marcia Muller's most complex novel to date, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone takes on a routine surveillance one weekend as a favor to Rudy Golding, a longtime client of her employer, the All-Souls Law Cooperative. She tails one Frank Wilkinson through Golden Gate Park's tropical gardens, several nurseries, the early morning flower market, and other horticultural landmarks. Wilkinson's business seems harmless and entirely personal, Sharon concludes. But when she arrives at Goldring's downtown office to report, she finds the elderly shirtmaker bludgeoned to death.

Now caught in the middle of a murder investigation, Sharon decides it's time to visit Wilkinson's home turf. The town of Hollister is a dustbow set among the foothills of the Diablo range, where ranching is the main vocation and minding your own business is the golden rule. There, Sharon unearths a tangle of sour relationships -- some of the strands send her back to San Francisco, straight to the middle of its community of upper-class activists, and deep into the world of the homeless.

Marcia Muller: There's Something in a Sunday. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892962704 (February, 1989), 213 p., $15.95.