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Title details for The Shape of Dread by Marcia Muller - Available

The Shape of Dread

#9 in series

by Marcia Muller
Laura Hicks
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Bobby Foster, carhop at the chic Cafe Comedie, is going to the gas chamber. He's already confessed to the murder of Tracy Kostakos, the club's rising star. But two years after the crime, Tracy's body is still missing and Bobby's confession is full of holes. All Souls Legal Cooperative's final appeal sends San Francisco's number one PI Sharon McCone behind the footlights into the super-charged arena of anxious club owners and aspiring young hopefuls, into the fractured world of Tracy's privileged family and the mind of a young comedienne who was not the good little girl they thought they knew, and into a labyrinth of death and deception where someone will kill to laugh last and get away with murder.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Sharon McCone Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    October 1, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792797081
      • File size: 261962 KB
      • Duration: 09:05:45

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 28, 1989
      With this extraordinarily complex, gripping novel, Muller surpasses the previous stories of Sharon McCone, San Francisco-based private eye. Sharon relates details in the case that takes her to meet Bobby Fisher in San Quentin where he's doomed to the gas chamber for the murder of Tracy Kostakos, a popular comic. Hoping to save Bobby, the investigator questions the owners of the Club Comedie, Jay Larkey and his partner, Rob Soriano, Soriano's wife and everyone else who had known Tracy, including her parents, fiance and roommate. The consensus is that the witty monologuist paradoxically lacked a sense of humor but had created hilarious routines by cruelly parodying people close to her. Digging deeper into the said already, ok? entertainer's past, Sharon unearths evidence that she may pay for with her own life. Evoking the atmosphere of San Francisco's special places, Muller makes one feel particularly the ``shape of dread'' on death row and provokes thought on the finality of capital punishment.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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