Dark Star

By Marcia Muller

Book Overview

Dark Star by Marcia Muller released on Aug 25, 1990 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 037326058X
• ISBN13: 9780373260584
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Worldwide Library
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Climax of a Trilogy

This is the third and final book of Marcia Muller's Joanna Stark trilogy, completing the saga of her art security expert's duel with her nemesis Parducci. The first was: "The Cavalier in White" and the second is "There Hangs the Knife." Actually, I liked the first one best and this one second of the 3. It's interesting to see Muller write of protagonists other than Sharon McCone--demonstrates her breadth of talent. Also, the Stark trilogy is heavily into the world of art and art theft as well as a series of books (like Sherlock Holmes vs. Professor Moriarty) with a continuing struggle between two characters (Stark and Parducci). Muller slowly and teasingly provides detail after detail to fill in the prior relationship between these two characters--considerably enlivening the tales. This book is a joy to read, and it's worth reading the entire trilogy. Enjoy!

The third in a series, this Stark mystery is the best!

Muller has created a wonderfully human character in Joanna Stark and she deserves to live on in future stories! In Dark Star, Muller creates a masterful who-done-it that keeps you guessing to the end, and then wraps up all of the loose ends in one neat package. Too neat, as it seems this may be our last look at Stark. If Muller tires of Sharon McCone, we only hope she returns to Stark and Elena Oliverez (another great character who disappeared after only three stories).