Marcia Muller: Where Echoes Live

Marcia Muller: Where Echoes Live (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
Sharon McCone has been asked by a former colleague to look into the plans of a large corporation to reopen a gold mine near the Nevada border that could seriously endanger the ecosystem of the area. Following a trail of bizarre happenings, disappearances, and a bullet-ridden body, McCone's trail leads to her to a Hong Kong industrialist... and a killer bent on large-scale destruction. Can McCone find her way through this twisted landscape to find the killer and prevent another murder?

Marcia Muller: Where Echoes Live. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Blackstone, ISBN: 9781609986209 (June, 2012), eBook, 746 KB (ca. 264 p.), $6.99.

Marcia Muller: Where Echoes Live (USA 1997)

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GO WEST, GO WEST...
Since the Gold Rush, California prospectors have siphoned off the waters of isolated Tufa Lake, exposing the fragile, otherworldly mineral formations 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 treads San Francisco P.I. Sharon McCone, searching for a local eccentric now missing after a suspicious land deal.

When the bullet-ridden corpse of an investor surfaces in the lake's silvery waters, McCone finds herself on a twisted trail that leads to San Francisco and then back to where it all began - the eerie desert mesas where a murderer prepares to kill again...

"COMPELLING... THINGS MOVE QUICKLY AND EXPLOSIVELY-TO AN INTRIGUING CONCLUSION." -- Chicago Tribune

Marcia Muller: Where Echoes Live. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0446401617 (May, 1997), 358 p., $3.99.

Marcia Muller: Where Echoes Live (USA 1995)

From the Publisher:
Go West, Go West...
Since the Gold Rush, California prospectors have siphoned off the waters of isolated Tufa Lake, exposing the fragile, otherworldly mineral formations 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 treads San Francisco P.I. Sharon McCone, searching for a local eccentric now missing after a suspicious land deal.

Marcia Muller: Where Echoes Live. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0446401617 (August, 1995), 358 p., $5.50.

Marcia Muller: Where Echoes Live (UK 1992)

From the Publisher:
First British Publication The Women's Press
Featuring Sharon McCone, Private Investigator.
Sharon McCone. Private Eye. Steely-eyed, clear-headed, intuitive, just. Strong and practical. Continuing in her fight to solve downtown San Francisco crime.

Plans are afoot to reopen a gold mine near the ghost town of Promiseville. But McCone's former colleague, Anne-Marie Altman, now counsel for the California Coalition for Environmental Preservation, believes large-scale commercial mining could seriously damage the ecosystem. Disappearances and break-ins add to people's fears... and now a body is found in the lake. McCone's desperate trail leads her back to San Francisco, and to Hong Kong-born Lionel Ong, head of the huge Transpacific Corporation... then on to Tufa Lake where McCone must confront a killer bent on large-scale destruction...

Marcia Muller: Where Echoes Live. A Sharon McCone Mystery. The Women's Press, ISBN: 0704343150 (August, 1992), 326 p., £5.99.

Marcia Muller: Where Echoes Live (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
"Sharon McCone is emerging as one of crime fiction's most original and durable figures." -- CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
IN HER TWELFTH OUTING, P.I. Sharon McCone leaves her San Francisco turf for the forbidding high desert landscape of Tufa Lake near the Nevada border. An environmental group thinks that the Hong Kong-based Transpacific Corporation has some dubious plans for an abandoned gold mine near the ghost town of Promiseville.

Sharon's investigation takes a grim turn when the bullet-riddled body of a Transpacific employee turns up in Tula Lake. Then a local prospector suddenly disappears and Lionel Ong, the president of Transpacific, is kidnapped. Has one of the environmental activists, perhaps the mysterious Hy Ripinsky, taken matters into his own hands?

As she pieces together the interlocking puzzle of personal histories and private interests that led to murder, Sharon finds that her heart won't follow where her logic leads. It takes a final explosive confrontation and a hard look at her own darkest impulses to solve the most disturbing case of her career.

"Muller is a good reporter and eloquent writer... McCone is a character who deserves a wide readership." -- LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Marcia Muller: Where Echoes Live. A Sharon McCone Mystery. The Mysterious Press published by Warner Books, ISBN: 0446401617 (July, 1992), 358 p., $4.99.

Marcia Muller: Where Echoes Live (USA 1991)

From the Publisher:
San Francisco private investigator Sharon McCone has been asked by former colleague Anne-Marie Altman -- now counsel for the California Coalition for Environmental Preservation -- to meet her in the high-desert town of Tufa Lake, near the Nevada border. Altman is looking into the plans of the Transpacific Corporation to reopen a gold mine near the ghost town of Promiseville, where large-scale commercial mining could seri-ously damage the ecosystem of the area, as well as destroy the historic buildings of the town.

Altman tells McCone of some bizarre events that have occurred since she and her associate Ned Sanderman hit town. For example, thr dis-appearance of Earl Hopwood, the prospector who sold Transpacific the mine. And break-ins at the cabins where she and Sanderman are stay-ing. Not to mention the body found floating in the lake.

McCone's trail leads her back to San Francisco and to Hong Kong-born industrialist Lionel Ong, head of Transpacific. In the course of finding the truth, McCone must return to Tufa Lake... and confront a killer bent on large-scale destruction.

Marcia Muller: Where Echoes Live. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892964189 (July, 1991), 326 p., $17.95.