Review

Dead Midnight

by Marcia Muller

Marcia Muller is one of the pioneers of contemporary, hard-boiled female serial mystery fiction. Her stoic heroine, Sharon McCone, has grown through 25 years --- from a starry-eyed San Francisco hippy amateur sleuth at the All Souls Legal Cooperative to a high tech, sophisticated detective hot on the trail of dot.com money launderers in her latest adventures in DEAD MIDNIGHT.

We have followed Sharon through many family crises, from a crush on a rock and roll star to the heartrending discovery of her true parentage in LISTEN TO THE SILENCE. She's moved from junker cars to private planes, from hunt and peck typewriters to computers and a