Marcia Muller
Description
Private eye Sharon McCone takes on a routine surveillance as a favor to Rudy Goldring, a longtime client of her employer, the All Souls Legal Cooperat
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ive. She tails one Frank Wilkinson through Golden Gate Park's tropical gardens, the early morning flower market, and other horticultural landmarks. The man's business seems harmless. But when she arrives at Goldring's downtown office to report her findings, she finds him dead. Now caught in the middle of a murder investigation, Sharon decides it's time to visit Wilkinson's home turf - the town of Hollister, whereranching is the main vocation and minding your business is the golden rule. There, Sharon unearths a tangle of sour relationships. Some of the strands lead back to the city, straight to the middle of its community of upper-class activists and deep into the world of the homeless.
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