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1) The breakers
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On a foggy summer morning, private investigator Sharon McCone receives a call from her former neighbors, the Curleys. Their usually dependable daughter Chelle hasn't been answering their calls for weeks. Would Sharon check on her? Sharon arranges to visit the building Chelle had been living in and rehabbing in southwest San Francisco. Once it was a nightclub and bar, she learns, and a favorite destination for the city's elite during Prohibition. But...
2) Coming back
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As she tries to recover from a debilitating injury, Sharon McCone seeks the truth behind the disappearance of a friend she made at physical therapy, a missing-persons case that could have a powerful effect on national security.
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"San Francisco is home to more than 200 privately owned streets. Most are alleyways, but a select few look torn straight from the pages of a magazine. Lined with mansions and elaborate gardens, the properties are luxurious and perfectly maintained; security guards patrol the grounds to keep the curious at bay. Few know of these exclusive enclaves, but those who do prowl for availability, ready to make a grab for the precious real estate if opportunity...
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"When two women are brutally murdered in northern California, their deaths are the latest atrocities in a surge of violence targeting Indigenous women in the area. Despite all evidence to the contrary, local officials rule the deaths isolated incidents, and they soon join the ranks of other unsolved homicides, quickly forgotten by law enforcement. Private Investigator Sharon McCone knows better, and so does the organization known as Crimes Against...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 3
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Investigating her friend's murder, private eye Sharon McCone follows a trail into San Francisco's glamorous architectural community in search of a very valuable clue--a Tiffany lamp adorned with the grinning face of a Cheshire Cat.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 13
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Private investigator Sharon McCone is asked to reinvestigate the case of a client's mother, who was convicted of murder in 1956. When the woman is found murdered, McCone searches for the killer.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 20
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While investigating sabotage on the set of a controversial film in Hawaii, San Francisco sleuth Sharon McCone finds a violent world of long-buried family secrets, drug dealing, political machinations, and murder.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 15
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Sharon McCone has struck out on her own and one of her first clients is T.J. "Suitcase" Gordon, known as a turnaround artist who creates profits and enemies while reviving failed businesses. After McCone saves Gordon from an explosion, he performs another kind of turnaround: he vanishes.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 2
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Private eye Sharon McCone must solve the mystery of who killed Molly Antonio, the nicest lady in her San Francisco apartment building.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 9
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Private eye Sharon McCone takes on a routine surveillance as a favor to a friend, and her target's day proceeds normally until he is murdered.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 4
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Private eye Sharon McCone is hired to find a portrait photographer's missing lady friend, and shortly finds that she must solve a murder.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 32
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"Finally settled into their new home after losing their house in a fire, and fully established in their new shared offices, private investigator Sharon McCone and her business partner husband Hy are starting to feel comfortable. That calm is shattered when Hy's former colleague Gage Renshaw--a shady troublemaker who they had presumed dead reappears, and it's unclear what he wants from his prosperous former associate. Meanwhile, Sharon has a new client...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 25
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"The history of corruption may jeopardize Sharon McCone's marriage, but uncovering the secrets of a mysterious firm may be the only way she can save her husband's life, and her own"--Provided by publisher.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 11
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Investigator Sharon McCone probes the strange will of murder victim Perry Hilderly, who had disinherited his children to leave his fortune to four strangers, and uncovers a tangled web of old secrets leading back to the Vietnam War.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 14
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Just when All Souls Legal Cooperative hands her a promotion that will tie her to an uninspiring desk job, Sharon McCone's main squeeze, Hy Ripinsky, disappears. An environmentalist, he seemingly consented to deliver a two million dollar ransom demanded by the kidnappers of a biotech biggie. Putting her career crisis on hold, Sharon discovers Hy's abandoned plane, wrecked rental car and the intrigues of a shady international security firm.
20) Burn out
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 26
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A chance encounter with a troubled, highly secretive Native American woman begins to haunt her dreams, and even though she is determined not to investigate anything during her stay--and perhaps not ever again--McCone is drawn into the plight of the young woman and her dysfunctional family. A murder and traces of violence at a deserted resort lead her across the desert and into Nevada, and finally to a remote and isolated ranch, where danger lies closer...