Four-star review of City
of Whispers by Marcia Muller
Years ago, I read all the
Marcia Muller books I could get my hands on, but I’ve been reading so many
other novels lately that I fell behind on the Sharon McCone series. In this
one, the twenty-eighth, Sharon is looking for her unstable half-brother Darcy Blackhawk
with help from nephew Mick and eventually from her husband. Many of the
familiar characters, including other members of her staff are mentioned but don’t
appear. With Darcy missing and possibly a murderer, it falls to Shar to search
for him. The story revolves around two dead women and their long-ago group of
friends. Sharon needs to unravel what happened to the two women in order to
find Darcy, whose emotional unbalance is shown in occasional short characters
from his POV. The backdrop of a changing San Francisco helps create the
atmosphere of the book—especially the slowly clearing fog. My only quibble was
the amount of repetition.
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