Listen to the Silence (Sharon McCone Mysteries)

Marcia Muller

ISBN 10: 0892966890 / ISBN 13: 9780892966899

Published by Mysterious Press, 2000

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Signed by author on title page without inscription. First edition with full number line. DJ is rubbed and has small puncture in gutter area of dj. Pages yellowed. Seller Inventory # unit81-4

Bibliographic Details

Title: Listen to the Silence (Sharon McCone ...

Publisher: Mysterious Press

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

When Sharon McCone receives the distressing news of her father's death, she immediately goes to San Diego to help her brother scatter their father's ashes and settle his affairs. But while going through his legal papers, Sharon uncovers a 1959 petition for the adoption of a Baby Girl Smith -- an infant who, from the day of adoption, has been known as Sharon Elizabeth McCone. Now, determined to find her biological parents, Sharon finds herself deep in Idaho's Flathead Reservation. Met with resentment, she discovers a few locals who will stop at nothing to make sure certain secrets are kept hidden.

Review:

Sharon McCone is used to solving problems. She has been doing it for over 20 years in the USA in Marcia Muller's pioneering and acclaimed series about the San Francisco PI. And thanks to her extended and occasionally dysfunctional family, she is no stranger to the consequences of revealing the occasional skeleton in the closet. But her latest case is both personal and deeply devastating. After her father dies, Sharon discovers documents that have been hidden for her entire life and they launch her on a voyage of self-discovery. Intent on exploring her own past, Sharon travels from a Shoshone Indian reservation in Montana to a ghost town in northern California. Far from resolving painful issues of loss and identity, the discovery of a woman named Saskia Blackhawk serves only to embroil the California PI in a larger story of deceit--and murder. Listen to the Silence is an intense novel which plunges into deeply unsettling territory, a novel in which what goes unsaid is just as important as the words spoken out loud.