Trophies and Dead Things, Marcia Muller
Trophies and Dead Things, Marcia Muller
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Trophies and Dead Things

Author: Marcia Muller

Narrator: Laura Hicks

Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2011


Synopsis

When a former sixties radical is murdered during a string of random sniper attacks, the All Souls Legal Cooperative must settle his surprisingly large estate. Then private investigator Sharon McCone comes across a new will, made just days before he died, that disinherits his two children in favor of four unknown and unconnected parties. McCone sifts through Perry Hilderly's belongings but finds little to explain this puzzling change. That is, until she uncovers a .357 with the serial number burned off. As McCone tracks down the new beneficiaries she discovers that the shootings aren't so random after all and that the dead man isn't the only one with a lurid past. To link the heirs to the killings, she must follow a treacherous trail of evidence that travels from the Vietnam years to the present. But along the way the elusive sniper waits in a homicidal rage and takes aim—this time at All Souls and Sharon McCone.

About Marcia Muller

Marcia Muller, a New York Times bestselling author and winner of six Anthony Awards and a Shamus Award, has received the Private Eye Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, their highest accolade.

About Laura Hicks

Laura Hicks is an Obie Award–winning actress who has appeared on Broadway, off Broadway, and in regional theater, film, and television. A native New Yorker and a Juilliard graduate, she has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Australia, Austria, Italy, and Ireland.


Reviews

This is a book I first read as a teenager and while I'm *pretty sure* I listened to it on audio (::cough:: cassette ::cough::) in my early 20s - it's easily been 25 years since I've read it. I only had a vague recollection that it was "one of my favorites" at the time - and it's still got one of the......more

Goodreads review by Tessa

Sharon McCone este varianta feminina a lui Philip Marlowe. O carte cu un mister solid, bine construit si cu o excelenta prezentare a orasului San Francisco ( cum nu am mai citit la nimeni). Traducerea insa este un fiasco... este groaznic de enervant ca la fiecare pas sa te intrebi de ce jazz este sc......more

Goodreads review by Pamela

There's a sniper on the loose in San Francisco but that is not all that PI Sharon McCone has to contend with in this book by Marcia Muller. One of the victims was a friend of McCone's boss, who is handling the man's estate until a second, more recent will is discovered, and it disinherits the man's......more


Quotes

“McCone is one of the most freshly conceived and complexly characterized of the female private eyes. Muller’s fine eye for detail and sense of place bring San Francisco and the California subculture vividly to life.”

Publishers Weekly

“Full of adventure, humanity, and two engaging kittens, this thoughtful mystery should attract older YAs.”

School Library Journal