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JackieS |
4.0 / 5
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As always, Marcia Muller delivers. Very enjoyable read, easy, but grabs your attention and takes you for a ride. Lots of twists that don't always go where one suspects. Fun stuff! Thanks, Marcia.
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J. France |
5.0 / 5
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I am a fan of Marcia Muller and keep track of her newest books by checking her website. When I first found out about her several years ago I immediately went to ebay and searched out all her old books. I really enjoy her stories and the developing characters. McCone rocks! Burn Out is a good book but it is not her best work - still worth reading!
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M. Stead |
5.0 / 5
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Awesome! New hardcover offering from all time favorite author sent to my house at 30% cover price. 1st in series was 1977! Could not ask for more from author or seller.
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Betty Daughtry |
5.0 / 5
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A perfect day is one with me curled up in a quiet place with a Marcia Muller Sharon McCone novel and no one to interrupt so it can be done in one sitting!! Keep writing Marcia!!!
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pvc |
4.0 / 5
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While there is nothing spectacular about this most recent Sharon McCone book, it is good, comfortable McCone. The story was satisfying and felt very true to the characters.
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Gloria Feit |
4.0 / 5
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Burn out is exactly what Sharon McCone is suffering from [or, more correctly, that from which she is suffering] - - she is in the throes of deep depression following her close call with death at the end of her last case, described in Ms. Muller's "The Ever-Running Man," and in a period of soul-searching. As such, she has gone to the ranch owned by Sharon and her husband, Hy Ripinsky, in the high desert country of California. Now in her early forties, her future and that of her highly successful investigative agency is uncertain.
The book is a distinct change of pace in the series, taking McCone back to the Bay area only for brief stops, the remainder of the time in and around small-town Vernon, California, where she plans to "rest, regain my perspective, and rethink my future." [Mid-life crisis, perhaps?] Instead, she reluctantly becomes involved in the disappearance of a niece of her ranch manager, a young woman of Northern Paiute heritage [Sharon herself is Shoshone] nearly eighteen years old, with whom Sharon has had only the briefest of encounters and yet feels a bond. Sharon commits herself to finding the girl, saying "cases change both the investigated and the investigator. Maybe one last effort would show me the way to the new life I was reaching for" - - her absolute last one, she vows.
Vernon, California, Sharon discovers, is virtually a Peyton Place for the present time [if that term hasn't completely lost any cultural significance as a reference point]. Small towns can hide a lot of things, causing Sharon to think "about the assumptions we make about people and how sometimes they're totally wrong." But Sharon's investigative skills are as sharp as ever, and the tale which unfolds is completely engaging as Sharon tries to find her way through her dilemma as well as find a murderer. Hy himself, busy with corporate reorganization, makes only short but always vital appearances here. The author has delivered another fast-moving, well-written novel, every bit as enjoyable as the prior entries in the series, and it is recommended.
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