Ask the Cards a Question, Marcia Muller
Ask the Cards a Question, Marcia Muller
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Ask the Cards a Question

Author: Marcia Muller

Narrator: Laura Hicks

Unabridged: 5 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2011


Synopsis

There’s trouble in Sharon McCone’s quiet San Francisco apartment building. Madame Anya, with her cards, her tamed crow, and her candles, had predicted evil for Molly Antonio. Linnea Carraway, drinking heavily and careening in the wake of a divorce, had argued with her. Now the sweet, elderly lady lies dead in her apartment. Linnea, last to see Molly alive, is the prime suspect, and if Sharon means to clear her best friend, she has to find the murderer fast. Sleuthing out the small-time secrets of her quirky neighbors leads Sharon in and around the neighborhood, and, much to her surprise, to a shocking string of big-time deals and blackmail. Suddenly death is in the cards, threatening Sharon’s oldest friendship, her professional credibility—and her life.

About Marcia Muller

Marcia Muller is a New York Times bestselling author and creator of the critically acclaimed series starring private investigator Sharon McCone. She has also written many short stories. She has won six Anthony Awards, a Shamus Award, and is also the recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award as well as the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, their highest accolade.

About Laura Hicks

Laura Hicks is an Obie Award–winning actress who has appeared on Broadway, off Broadway, and in regional theater, film, and television. A native New Yorker and a Juilliard graduate, she has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Australia, Austria, Italy, and Ireland.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lee

It was time to read one my female PI series, I've gathered over the years. Her second in her Sharon McCone series, was a nice little mystery. And, the sense of place of San Francisco in the early '80's, is well done. Also, her hubby writes a fantastic hard-boiled series...with some Nameless Detectiv......more

Goodreads review by Pamela

Intrepid private investigator Sharon McCone is on the hunt again and this time it is a murder that happens practically on her doorstep: one of her neighbors, Molly Antonio, has been killed. And she was strangled and mysteriously, a length of curtain cord that McCone herself had cut off her curtains......more


Quotes

“Marcia Muller’s Ask the Cards brings back Sharon McCone, the New York private eye. Now she is confronted with the murder of a neighbor in her apartment house…Sharon sets out to solve the case. It’s all neighborhood stuff—the corner grocer, a blind man, a fortuneteller, the middle class of the city—written in a snappy prose and nicely worked out.”   New York Times

“Long before Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Milhone, long before Sara Paretsky’s V. I. Warshawski, there was Marcia Muller’s Sharon McCone…Muller and McCone are still the class of the field.”  San Diego Union-Tribune, praise for the series

“Top-notch mystery and more from one of the genre’s Grand Masters.” Library Journal, praise for the series