While Other People Sleep (A Sharon McCone Mystery, 19)

by Marcia Muller

Book Overview

A DOUBLE NIGHTMAR94E This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446607215
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.7" x 5.7"

Customer Reviews

What If It Happened To You

While Other People Sleep, by Marcia Muller is a mystery book full of intensity and suspense. Each character has some kind of problem that rely on a private investigator, Sharon McCone, to help them. But what she does not see is that she needs help of her own. In Sharon's case it's ironic because her character is a sophisticated, intellectual, employer who is a famous private investigator, who does not realize that there ia an imposter, impersonting her, who is sabotaging her reputation, her life. She is more concerned with assisting others with their problems, trying to get to the bottom of her own case. What is so intriguing about this story is that is gives a full description of each step of the process. Each maneuver that a character does or says is given a fulj detail step-by-step. So when reading and using your imagination simultaneously, it's like being there.

Taut, Compelling Tale That Keeps You Riveted

I thought that the build-up of the suspense in this book was the best in the series. If you go with the story (and not worry about how accurate all the details are), you'll have a gripping experience that will stay with you with you in the wee hours of the night. The inner journey from disbelief, to fear, to anger was especially rewarding as McCone gets down to finding out what is happening as someone impersonates her. McCone is usually a little too self-contained for my taste, and this book makes her more appealing. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.

I could not put it down!!!

Her best book in the series. I found it exciting.

Keep them coming

Sharon McCone in While Other People Sleep faces what seems to be a problem that is becoming more prevelant in our society. Stalkers and those who are intolerant of other's lifestyles are gaining more and more power and there is little anyone can do about it. I have read all the books in this excellent series and hate to wait the year it takes for the next one to come out in hardback. I sat down and read it pretty much in one sitting. The characters are well developed.I recommend that a reader new to the series start back a few titles, or maybe from the very beginning. The stories are well worth the time and energy it will take to read all 19.I hope the year passes quickly and we see the developments in all the varied relationships revealed in these books.Good work.

Anther good McCone mystery

San Francisco private investigator Sharon McCone learns that someone has been recently impersonated her at a high society bash. If that is where it stopped, Sharon would not be suffering much pain. However, the impersonator has infringed into every aspect of Sharon's personal and professional life. The woman, who is a look-alike, has committed crimes that lead back to Sharon, has used the PI's credit cards, stolen some clients, and even entered Sharon's apartment. Worse yet, the other Sharon has started to make calls to the sleuth's family. However, Sharon goes over the edge when she is nearly incarcerated for a crime done by her other half. Enough is enough! Sharon begins to chase down the impostor to put a stop to the woman's activities and to learn why she is doing these crazy things. Putting her team to work, Sharon leaps head first into a dangerous cat and mouse game with a prey who seems to want to steal Shoron's very identity. Sharon McCone is the Cal Ripken of the sleuth world as her nineteenth novel in two decades remains at a superstar level despite the longevity of the series. All the characters are well defined so that readers can understand their motives. The story line is fast-paced and thrilling, and includes an intriguing tour of the less renowned neighborhoods of San Francisco, leaving readers wide awake to finish the novel WHILE OTHER PEOPLE SLEEP. Marcia Muller, who has already won the Private Eye Writers of America's Life Achievement Award, is obviously well on her way to obtaining a second such honor.Harriet Klausner