Featured books

Featured Websites

.: Reader Views Kids

Provides book reviews, by kids, for kids

.: Inside Scoop Live

Provides live author interviews for podcast

.: Authors Access

Provides interviews with experts in the publishing industry

.: Midwest Book Review

Provides post-publication reviews

.: Reader Views

Provides book reviews and author publicity

.: LR Communication Design

Provides professional website design and development

.: Blogging Authors

Provides a place where writers and readers meet

.: Review The Book

Provides 5 books reviews on 10 different sites

.: Best Sellers World

Provides book reviews and author features

.: Say What? Savannah Mae

Provides Book Reviews via Book Blog

.: Feathered Quill Book Reviews

Provides book reviews and author features

reviews

Burn Out

Marcia Muller
Grand Central Publishing (2008)
ISBN 9780446581073
Reviewed by Sandie Kirkland for RebeccasReads (3/09)

Sharon McCone has gone to a ranch to rethink her life.  A long-time private investigator, she wonders if she has had enough of the death and corruption that she makes her living investigating.  She is burned out, fresh from a case that almost took her life, and she resolves to do nothing for a while.  Fate has other plans.  Her foreman's family is in trouble.  His sister-in-law, Meri, considered the town drunk, is in trouble: her oldest daughter has been found murdered, and her younger daughter is missing.  Sharon starts to poke around in the case to help out the troubled family.  Soon more and more bodies start appearing, and Sharon is drawn fully into the case.  The murders seem related to an old crime that was never solved successfully.

Marcia Muller has written twenty-five other Sharon McCone mysteries.  Fans of the series have watched Sharon from her start as a private investigator, to her rise and eventual ownership of an agency, and now through the questioning of her life.  Readers of this series won't be disappointed in this latest version.  I've read probably a dozen of her mysteries over the years, and reading one is like going to a reunion.  The plots are tight, the characters are believable and the mysteries are always successfully resolved.

This book is recommended to all mystery readers.

.: Blog
.: Author's website