The Breakers, Marcia Muller
The Breakers, Marcia Muller
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The Breakers

Author: Marcia Muller

Narrator: Elizabeth Evans

Unabridged: 6 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/14/2018

Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Marcia Muller is at her page-turning best in The Breakers, as she digs into a particularly disturbing corner of San Francisco's history--one that Sharon McCone may not escape alive.

Sharon gets a request from her former neighbors the Curleys. Their usually dependable daughter, Chelle, hasn't answered their calls in over a week. Would Sharon check on her?

Chelle, a house flipper, has been living at her latest rehab project: a Prohibition-era nightclub known as the Breakers, formerly a favored watering hole for San Francisco's elite, now converted into a run-down apartment building. There's something sinister about the quirky space, and Sharon quickly discovers why. Lurking in a secret room between two floors is a ghastly art gallery: photos and drawings of mass murderers, long ago and recent. Jack the Ripper. The Zodiac and Zebra killers. Charles Manson. What, an alarmed Sharon wonders, was Chelle doing in this chamber of horrors?

And as Sharon begins to suspect that the ghoulish collage may be more than just a leftover relic of the Breakers' checkered history, her search for Chelle becomes a desperate race against the clock before a killer strikes again.

"[Marcia Muller's] stories crackle like few others on the mystery landscape." -- San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

"Muller undoubtedly remains one of today's best mystery writers." -- Associated Press

About Marcia Muller

MARCIA MULLER was named MWA Grand Masterin 2005. She has published fifty novels, thirty-two inthe Sharon McCone series, as well as six short storycollections and numerous articles, stories and bookreviews.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sue on October 02, 2018

This is the latest of the long-running Sharon McCone series set in San Francisco and featuring McCone and her now-husband Hy Rypinsky. In this outing, Sharon has been asked by former neighbors to look for their daughter Chelle, who has been rehabbing an old building in the “Outerlands” area of the c......more

Goodreads review by Amy on September 16, 2018

Muller is at her best when she takes her readers deep into the personal lives of the characters, and when she describes the character and quirks of San Francisco as an integral part of the novel. Suspense is all too often created by Ms. McCone's tendency to get herself into danger by ignoring all ty......more

Goodreads review by Betty on August 21, 2018

My thanks to the Meridian Library for my copy. Sharon McCone is asked to look into the disappearance of Chelle Curley, her neighbor who care for cats when Sharon was out of town. As Sharon investigate she meets the lone tenant of the Breakers. The twists and turns of the book will have reading it on......more

Goodreads review by Sue Em on September 02, 2018

From her genre-bursting Edwin of the Iron Shoes to this her latest Sharon McCone tale, Marcia Miller consistently authors strong well-written mysteries. While this isn't one of my top favorites of hers, it was still a worthwhile read, if only to catch up with everyone.......more

Goodreads review by Anne - Books of My Heart on September 16, 2018

This review was originally posted on Books of My Heart   The Sharon McCone series is a long running mystery series with The Breakers is number 33. I have read them all. It began in 1977. The books are set in current day so technology and other aspects have changed along with our world over the yea......more

Quotes

"One of the world's premier mystery writers."—Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Her stories crackle like few others on the mystery landscape."—San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

"A prime Muller mystery."—Booklist

"The Night Searchers [has] the clean, classic moves of her earliest novels...[Muller] is never better than when she's roaming the streets of the city she knows and loves so well."—New York Times Book Review on The Night Searchers

"Absorbing...McCone's daring and smarts make her an irresistible heroine. The brisk narrative vividly evokes contemporary San Francisco."—Publishers Weekly on The Night Searchers

"A plot so imaginative that readers will have no choice but to sit down and settle in for an exciting read they will not forget...The action never slows down, as the two investigators and their employees find themselves dead center in the middle of a truly bizarre group of folks that the reader will never forget. This is a definite keeper!"—Suspense Magazine on The Night Searchers

"Muller has displayed a knack both for keeping the series fresh and for allowing her character to grow..., Muller's series remains a gold standard for female detective stories."—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review on Locked In

"Muller has created a delicious mixture of adventure, action, altruism, pathos with a touch of humor, and romance thrown in to build a massive base of loyal fans . . . She is one of those rare series authors who never lets her characters grow stale or trite."—BookReporter.com

"Muller undoubtedly remains one of today's best mystery writers."—Associated Press

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