San Antonio College Library

San Francisco PI Sharon McCone investigates threatening letters to a famous country music singer from a woman who was also a singer and with whom he had an affair. A tale of vengeance ending in bloodshed. By the author of Wolf in the Shadows.

A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar and in just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria. Before the Women's Murder Club can piece together either case, one of the killers forces Detective Lindsay Boxer to...

It's worth a $1 million reward to Sharon McCone if she catches the man called the Diplo-bomber, who has set off bombs at consulates all over the U.S. Now he's in San Francisco -- and that's McCone's turf. When he misses his latest target, the embassy of a small Arab emirate, McCone's on the spot -- and soon discovers some disturbing things about this strange, forbidding embassy. One is the American woman kept a virtual prisoner there by her Arab mother-in-law....

It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and...

Returning to the tough streets of North Beach where he had grown up, street-wise private detective Dante Mancuso is struggling to rebuild his life when he is asked to help clear a fellow investigator who has been charged with a notorious thirty-year-old homicide.

Tracking down a badly beaten compulsive gambler and returning her to her home, Nameless realizes the case has further implications when the gambler disappears again, revealing the existence of a violent racket that preys on gambling victims.

PI Sharon McCone of San Francisco uses her computer training and her new skills as a pilot to search for a missing man. Sharon learns the man, who was involved in the federal witness protection program, has been murdered and she goes after the killer.

"Sharon McCone is hired to investigate the 22-year-old cold-case of a housewife and artist who vanished inexplicably in the central part of California"--Provided by publisher.

San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson, forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia, is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife, who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide.

"Martinelli is investigating the death of Philip Gilbert, an obsessively avid Holmes collector (he's even transformed his San Francisco house into a replica of 221B Baker Street), when she discovers what could be the motive: a previously unpublished story from Arthur Conan Doyle, told from Holmes's point of view, a find that could be worth millions."--Publisher's weekly.