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Vanishing Point (Sharon McCone #24)
In the latest installment in this critically acclaimed series, Sharon McCone is hired to investigate one of San Luis Obispo County's most puzzling cold cases. A generation ago, Laurel Greenwood, a housewife and artist, inexplicably vanished, leaving her young daughter alone. Now, new evidence suggests that the missing woman may have led a strange double life. But before Mc...more
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Published
July 10th 2006
by Mysterious Press
(first published July 1st 2006)
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Fans of Marcia Muller’s Sharon McCone series will appreciate that after the heart-break McCone underwent during The Dangerous Hour, that Muller is letting McCone enjoy a little happiness.
The Vanishing Point opens with McCone’s wedding reception. She and Hy Ripinsky have returned from their spur-of-the-moment trip to Vegas firmly wed. They fly back to find a surprise party waiting for them to usher them into married life. Given that both of them are independent workaholics, it is then appropriat...more
The Vanishing Point opens with McCone’s wedding reception. She and Hy Ripinsky have returned from their spur-of-the-moment trip to Vegas firmly wed. They fly back to find a surprise party waiting for them to usher them into married life. Given that both of them are independent workaholics, it is then appropriat...more
This is the first Sharon McCone mystery that I have read. Perhaps if I had read others before this one, I would feel closer to the characters. As it is, the character of Sharon McCone, her husband, and her staff felt very one-dimensional. Sharon has no real personality; nothing about her stands out as being a unique voice. Poirot has his arrogance and fastidiousness, Elvis Cole has his humorous outlook on life. There's something about the view these detectives have on the world that make them in...more
Another great book in this series. keep them coming.
In the latest installment in this critically acclaimed series, Sharon McCone is hired to investigate one of San Luis Obispo County's most puzzling cold cases. A generation ago, Laurel Greenwood, a housewife and artist, inexplicably vanished, leaving her young daughter alone. Now, new evidence suggests that the missing woman may have led a strange double life. But before McCone can penetrate the tangled mystery, she must first solve a second dis...more
In the latest installment in this critically acclaimed series, Sharon McCone is hired to investigate one of San Luis Obispo County's most puzzling cold cases. A generation ago, Laurel Greenwood, a housewife and artist, inexplicably vanished, leaving her young daughter alone. Now, new evidence suggests that the missing woman may have led a strange double life. But before McCone can penetrate the tangled mystery, she must first solve a second dis...more
May 26, 2009
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Vanishing Point, by Marcia Muller, book borrowed from Library for the Blind but it is available through audible.com.
We begin this book with the wedding party of Hai and Sharon who have finally gotten married. But Sharon’s former partner, Rae, comes to her with a cold case from a dear friend. Jennifer’s mother disappeared 22 years ago. No one ever found a body or found out what happened to her. As Sharon begins investigating this case with Jennifer’s husband, Mark, saying no expense will be spare...more
We begin this book with the wedding party of Hai and Sharon who have finally gotten married. But Sharon’s former partner, Rae, comes to her with a cold case from a dear friend. Jennifer’s mother disappeared 22 years ago. No one ever found a body or found out what happened to her. As Sharon begins investigating this case with Jennifer’s husband, Mark, saying no expense will be spare...more
This is Muller's 27th Sharon McCone mystery - formulaic, to be sure (I've read most, if not all). Unlike a lot of other series, though, the character ages and develops as we read the series. McCone was a younk kid fresh out of the SFFD, struggling to learn the PI business. Now she's a successful owner of a good-size firm, with other people involved in the cases. If you haven't read the others in the series, you might feed lost in all the side characters.
That said, this was a good, quick read - d...more
That said, this was a good, quick read - d...more
Marsha Muller is an award winning mystery writer and I will definitely recommend her. This book is well written and has well-developed characters. The settings in various fishing towns along the California coast is also appealing. In this series her main character is Sharon McCone, a private investigor who has just gotten married to her long-time boyfriend. A cold case in brought to her by a woman who is haunted by the disappearance of her mother 20 years prior. As Sharon investigates it becomes...more
It was good getting back to San Francisco where this series takes place. Sharon McCone is a private investigator, who pilots her own Cessana and runs an agency. I have enjoyed these books since I began many years ago. It has been a while since I picked one up, but I did to escape the stress of my life. I wanted to lose myself in this one. And since I was traveling to my old home state/neighborhood so to speak, I decided it would be a good fit. Slow at times, plodding at times, it was not the bes...more
The latest episode in one of my favourite series; I'm a fan, look elsewhere if you want criticism (even the constructive kind).
This is classic McCone, as good as ever. This time she's looking into the over twenty year old disappearance of a young mother; one of her now grown up children wants the case settled.
There's enough of the regular characters (now an enormous cast) but not too much, and plenty enough of a mystery, not too overloaded with twists, not too simple. Perfect as far as I'm con
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VANISHING POINT (PI-California-Cont) – G+
Muller, Marcia – 24th in series
Mysterious Press, 2006- Hardcover
*** Newly married PI Sharon McCone is hired by a woman to find her mother who disappeared without a trace 22 years earlier. When the client also disappears, is history repeating itself?
*** I always enjoy Muller’s books, but this one not quite as much as some others. I do find I miss simplicity of the early McCone stories when she was on her own and there seems to be more action. In this 24th...more
Muller, Marcia – 24th in series
Mysterious Press, 2006- Hardcover
*** Newly married PI Sharon McCone is hired by a woman to find her mother who disappeared without a trace 22 years earlier. When the client also disappears, is history repeating itself?
*** I always enjoy Muller’s books, but this one not quite as much as some others. I do find I miss simplicity of the early McCone stories when she was on her own and there seems to be more action. In this 24th...more
I've been searching for a good mystery series, and I think I've finally found one. These books are interesting and exciting, but not too "nasty." I've read about 6 in the series and there hasn't been any overly racy scenes, but at the same time there's romance. I really like that! The one downside is the "f word" is used several times. I can't understand why the author would choose to keep everything else clean, and then throw the "f bomb" in. Too bad! Other than that, I love them!
McCone has her own elaborate PI firm, and is recently married. Arriving home after the honeymoon she takes on a new client who is looking for her missing mother--22 years missing. Excellent missing persons procedure, but more intense is the emotional setting of the woman who hired her. McCone gets it solved, of course, but not without a number of twists and turns, deaths and more.
I have always liked Marcia Muller's books, although they aren't my absolute favorites. This is another Sharon McCone mystery. A young adult woman asks Sharon to find out what happened to her mother, who disappeared 22 years earlier when the woman was 10 years old. Of course, Sharon solves the mystery and only gets shot at once.
Perhaps if I had read earlier novels in this series and had the opportunity to develop a fondness for the protagonist I might have gotten further into the novel. As it was, I found her boring and uninteresting and didn't get past page 60. Maybe I will try reading the earlier ones first and try again.
As McCone deals with her ever expanding "family" of co-workers and marriage to Hy, she solves a cold case of a missing mother. All the unpleasantness uncovered in her investigation only helps her realize how important her professional family is in her life and how she has adopted a mother hen role in their lives.
Not one of the most edgy stories by Muller, but McCone fans will love the personal touches.
Not one of the most edgy stories by Muller, but McCone fans will love the personal touches.
Sharon McCone has changed over the course of this series, but not in a negative way--she has maintained her ties with those who helped her out in the beginning, and as she has aged, there have been more complications in her life, as you would expect. Good series well worth reading
Another good one, I have read all the previous books in the series and I like to see Sharon happy following her marriage to Hy. Although the mystery is a dark one - a mother leaving her two young daughters, it has an undercurrent of frivolity in Sharon personal life.
Nov 03, 2010
Katie
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Recommends it for:
mystery fans
Recommended to Katie by:
book club
I enjoyed reading this book. It's the first mystery by Marcia Muller I've read and although it started out rather slowly with activity centered around Sharon McCone, it didn't focus on her personal life nearly as much as on the real case. The story isn't a thriller but is still a pageturner that kept me reading eagerly. The ending ties up loose ends neatly but lacks surprise; it seemed to be expected the entire time, despite it being mildly capitvating to see the plot unfold.
Sharon McCone has married her long time love, Hy Lipinski. While he continues his business, she begins an investigation into a mother missing for more than 20 years. Family secrets abound and she digs them out.
There were quite a few extra people at the start of this audiobook which made it hard to keep track of who was important to begin with but once I was more into the story of a cold case missing person and the hunt to find out what had happened to her it kept me guessing.
I have been reading the Sharon McCone mysteries for years and apparently have missed a few because now she is married with a big business of her own.
This isn't a nail bitter but it is a fun read.
This isn't a nail bitter but it is a fun read.
My first Marcia book...it was hard to put down around the half-way point. Something is always going on...never a dull moment. I really enjoyed it, even though the writing wasn't the best.
I haven't read a Sharon McCone mystery in a long time. This is one of the more recent ones and she has a whole bunch of assistants who I had trouble keeping straight.
Wow, this is the 23rd in this series, and I am several behind! I have been reading this series for many years, and still really like to read about Sharon McCone, her family, friends, and co-investigators. I like that Ms. Mueller lets her characters age and change with the times, they are not at all static. I will look forward to reading on!
The writing and story were good, I just found the pay off less than satisfying.
I love love Sharon McCone.I have never gotten tired of her and her adventures.
Let me say upfront, I am not a mystery book fan. They usually just don't do it for me. This book didn't do it for me either. I would imagine that long-time fans of this detective would have been disappointed by the quick way her wedding was handled. I also felt the ending was rushed, but at that point I didn't care. I was reading this for a book club--if I hadn't been, I wouldn't have even finished it.
Tracking down a sociopathic mother
Competently written but nothing special.
Hy and Sharon finally got married.
Not one of my favorite books of hers.
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A native of the Detroit area, Marcia Muller grew up in a house full of books and self-published three copies of her first novel at age twelve, a tale about her dog complete with primitive illustrations. The "reviews" were generally positive.
In the early 1970s, having moved to California, Muller found herself unemployable and began experimenting with mystery novels.
In the ensuing thirty-some years,...more
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In the early 1970s, having moved to California, Muller found herself unemployable and began experimenting with mystery novels.
In the ensuing thirty-some years,...more
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