Marcia Muller: A Walk Through the Fire (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
Sharon McCone, weary of San Francisco's persistent rainy weather, jumps at the chance to investigate sabotage on the set of a documentary film being shot on the island of Kauai. Based on the writings of Hawaiian scholar Elson Wellbright, the film has incited major controversy among some of Wellbright's family members who aren't anxious to see the project reach completion. Vandalism quickly escalates into big-time violence, and McCone discovers a world of family secrets, drug dealing, political insurgency, and murder in this new crime novel by one of the world's most beloved mystery writers.

Marcia Muller: A Walk Through the Fire. Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 9781455567867 (March, 2016), eBook, 1 MB (ca. 304 p.), $4.99.

Marcia Muller: A Walk Through the Fire (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
Accidents are plaguing a documentary film crew on breathtakingly beautiful Kauai. Can San Francisco P.I. Sharon McCone ferret out possible sabotage behind the scenes? The job sounds like a breeze - McCone envisions romantic, tropical nights with her lover, Hy Ripinsky. Instead, she finds a troubled paradise with rising tensions between native and non-native Hawaiians, a film going south fast, and a macabre ritual death. Then a mysterious local pilot rattles her commitment to Hy, and soon McCone is in danger herself... caught in the place Hawaiians call "ahi wela maka'u," the place between fire love and fire terror, the place where even a seasoned private eye can get burned.

Marcia Muller: A Walk Through the Fire. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446608165 (July, 2000), 328 p., $6.99.

Marcia Muller: A Walk Through the Fire (UK 1999)

From the Publisher:
A documentary filmmaker suspects sabotage on the set and sends for Sharon McCone to investigate on the Hawaiian Island of Kauia where the shooting is taking place. Vandalism escalates into violence, and Sharon finds herself walking through a blazing fire of emotion and terror.

Marcia Muller: A Walk Through the Fire. The Women's Press, ISBN: 0704346346 (October, 1999), 293 p., £6.99.

Marcia Muller: A Walk Through the Fire (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:

Winner of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award, Marcia Muller proudly launched the first modern female private eye series back in the sev-enties. Her detective, San Francisco-based Sharon McCone, has evolved through the years, developing her gritty investigative talents and a sensitivity to gray areas between the law's absolute black and white. Now, in her newest case, McCone must uncover a serpent in paradise and untangle complexities of motive, justice, and the heart...

A WALK THROUGH THE FIRE

A job in Hawaii sounded like an ideal way to combine business with pleasure. And with an erotic interlude in mind, Sharon McCone brought her long-term lover Hy Ripinsky along. But from the very moment she arrives on the island of Kauai, McCone finds herself in what the natives call "ahi wel maka-u," the place between fire love and fire terror, a place where even a seasoned private investigator can get burned.

Here, on an island filled with both breathtaking natural beauty and serious economic troubles, young filmmaker Glenna Stanleigh suspects someone is trying to stop the production of her local documentary. A series of accidents looking more like sabotage - have plagued the shoot to the point where the film's backer, island bigwig Peter Wellbright, fears the police may shut down the project. By the time McCone steps in, nerves are frayed, crew members are frightened, and Glenna's life is at stake.

McCone immediately senses the tensions between native and nonnative Hawalians -- and how Glenna's movie, which focuses on Wellbright's father, may be making things worse. Her instincts tell her to explore both the dark corners of the island's present problems and the Wellbright family's murky past. Then suddenly, even as she teeters on the edge of an affair with a Hawaiian helicopter pilot who seems immersed in the case, a macabre death changes everything. And amid a conflagration of desires and desperate decisions, McCone is forced to take one irrevocable step to stop a killer.

Marcia Muller: A Walk Through the Fire. A Mystery. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892966882 (May, 1999), 293 p., $23.00.