Book Review: Listen to the Silence

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

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Marcia Muller
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Private Investigator   Woman Main Character
Series: Sharon McCone # 21
Mysterious, Jul 2000, $23.95, 304 pp.

The news that her beloved father died in his San Diego home from a heart attack stuns San Francisco Private investigator Sharon McCone. However, Sharon fails to obtain closure when she finds documents that prove she was adopted. Unable to let this revelation remain buried, Sharon decides to handle her own case and uncover the identities of her biological parents.

Sharon soon finds evidence that sends her to a Shoshone reservation in Idaho. Further inquiries lead to Saskia Blackhawk, the woman Sharon believes birthed and deserted her. Attorney Saskia is in a land dispute with developer Austin DiCarlo, who might be Sharon’s father. Before Sharon can obtain the truth, a hit and run driver sends Saskia into a coma and makes the California sleuth wonder if her dad is trying to kill her mom, that is if they are her parents?

LISTEN TO SILENCE is one of the best McCone mysteries to date, if not the best. The award winning Marcia Muller shows why she is so highly regarded as she personalizes the investigation, which adds focus on the sleuth. Sharon has never been this good as her emotions go through a grinder that leaves her raw, but anxious to know whose DNA she inherited. Ms. Muller freshens up the professional detective sub-genre with this personalized mystery.

Harriet Klausner

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