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Summary: McCONE vs McCONE
Review: In this one Sharon McCone is going against herself, or so it appears. An imposter is using her name and is reading her mind. The book started off real well and I thought it was going to be the best McCone I had read in a while, then, after Sharon found out who the imposter was,the rest was anti-clamatic. Then we got into a severl pages about the planes again. I agree with one of the other reviewers, the books were better when the stories were much more simple. When Sharon was with All Souls. If you want some good reading, read the earlier books and leave the later ones alone.
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Summary: High-tech, low entertainment
Review: It used to be that Sharon McCone drove around in a car, gathering clues, using her brain to solve simple, but riveting mysteries. Now she flies a plane, uses computers, her boyfriend is an ex-mercenary who's a partner in a high-tech security firm...What happened to simplicity in mysteries? McCone has gone the way of Scarpetta, who used to be a medical examiner but now seems to be an international solver of terrorist activity. If you need a McCone fix, read one of the old books. Or better yet, Ms. Muller, simplify, simplify...
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Summary: Marcia Muller Comes Thorough Again
Review: Just finished Muller's latest - While Other People Sleep - and thoroughly enjoyed it. Muller continues to grow and develop her characters. Even after 19 books, Sharon McCone and her colleagues maintain this reader's attention. The book had great atmosphere. Muller's suberb touch with characterization make it an excellent book to enjoy by the pool, on the beach or curled up at home with a glass of chardonnay.
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Summary: A Class Act
Review: Muller maintains her strength of characters and of plot, even 21 years since the first Sharon McCone novel. This one is gripping, tense, and kept me up til 3 in the morning - as the title suggested. It's nice to see Shar poping in on old neighbours and friends as she revisits part of her past. A great read, but if you're new to Muller, start with Edwin of the Iron Shoes and enjoy the whole lot in sequence.
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Summary: Anther good McCone mystery
Review: San Francisco private investigator Sharon McCone learns that someone has been recently impersonated her at a high society bash. If that is where it stopped, Sharon would not be suffering much pain. However, the impersonator has infringed into every aspect of Sharon's personal and professional life. The woman, who is a look-alike, has committed crimes that lead back to Sharon, has used the PI's credit cards, stolen some clients, and even entered Sharon's apartment. Worse yet, the other Sharon has started to make calls to the sleuth's family. However, Sharon goes over the edge when she is nearly incarcerated for a crime done by her other half. Enough is enough! Sharon begins to chase down the impostor to put a stop to the woman's activities and to learn why she is doing these crazy things. Putting her team to work, Sharon leaps head first into a dangerous cat and mouse game with a prey who seems to want to steal Shoron's very identity. Sharon McCone is the Cal Ripken of the sleuth world as her nineteenth novel in two decades remains at a superstar level despite the longevity of the series. All the characters are well defined so that readers can understand their motives. The story line is fast-paced and thrilling, and includes an intriguing tour of the less renowned neighborhoods of San Francisco, leaving readers wide awake to finish the novel WHILE OTHER PEOPLE SLEEP. Marcia Muller, who has already won the Private Eye Writers of America's Life Achievement Award, is obviously well on her way to obtaining a second such honor. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Keep them coming
Review: Sharon McCone in While Other People Sleep faces what seems to be a problem that is becoming more prevelant in our society. Stalkers and those who are intolerant of other's lifestyles are gaining more and more power and there is little anyone can do about it. I have read all the books in this excellent series and hate to wait the year it takes for the next one to come out in hardback. I sat down and read it pretty much in one sitting. The characters are well developed. I recommend that a reader new to the series start back a few titles, or maybe from the very beginning. The stories are well worth the time and energy it will take to read all 19. I hope the year passes quickly and we see the developments in all the varied relationships revealed in these books. Good work.
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Summary: Stalkers, unlimited!
Review: Sharon McCone, female PI, begins to hear reports of someone who is impersonating her. This person uses her credit cards, breaks into her house, has affairs while using Sharon's identity, and begins to seriously mess up Sharon's life and psyche. At the same time, Sharon's secretary Ted is exhibiting strange and irrascible behavior. Eventually it comes to light that he, too, is battling with a stalker. Are these incidents related and is it the same person doing all of this mischief? Sharon has to investigate these problems without the support of her lover, Hy Ripinsky, who is off on an assignment for his company. The identities of the stalkers are revealed before the end of the book, but Muller still spins a good tale of Sharon's investigation and pursuit of them. As usual, flying plays an important part in this book and there is a good mystery told. This book will please Sharon McCone fans, old and new.
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Summary: Stalkers, unlimited!
Review: Sharon McCone, female PI, begins to hear reports of someone who is impersonating her. This person uses her credit cards, breaks into her house, has affairs while using Sharon's identity, and begins to seriously mess up Sharon's life and psyche. At the same time, Sharon's secretary Ted is exhibiting strange and irrascible behavior. Eventually it comes to light that he, too, is battling with a stalker. Are these incidents related and is it the same person doing all of this mischief? Sharon has to investigate these problems without the support of her lover, Hy Ripinsky, who is off on an assignment for his company. The identities of the stalkers are revealed before the end of the book, but Muller still spins a good tale of Sharon's investigation and pursuit of them. As usual, flying plays an important part in this book and there is a good mystery told. This book will please Sharon McCone fans, old and new.
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Summary: What If It Happened To You
Review: While Other People Sleep, by Marcia Muller is a mystery book full of intensity and suspense. Each character has some kind of problem that rely on a private investigator, Sharon McCone, to help them. But what she does not see is that she needs help of her own. In Sharon's case it's ironic because her character is a sophisticated, intellectual, employer who is a famous private investigator, who does not realize that there ia an imposter, impersonting her, who is sabotaging her reputation, her life. She is more concerned with assisting others with their problems, trying to get to the bottom of her own case. What is so intriguing about this story is that is gives a full description of each step of the process. Each maneuver that a character does or says is given a fulj detail step-by-step. So when reading and using your imagination simultaneously, it's like being there.
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Summary: Another McCone mystery hits on target
Review: While Other People Sleep, like the last half dozen Sharon McCone mysteries show a writer at her economic best. No lengthy descriptions or unnecessary verbiage clutter the California landscape that Sharon traverses in her search for an imitator, and terrorizer, of her life. The story moves swiftly and smoothly, with the all too familiar creepy horror of the current scourge of society - the stalker - hanging over every move our protagonist makes. Marcia Muller always keeps McCone fresh and alive for her readers, and we'll hopefully enjoy her investigations for another twenty years.
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