Marcia Muller

Marcia Muller (born September 28, 1944 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American crime novelist.

After studying journalism, she worked as a freelance journalist from 1971. In 1977 she began writing detective novels.

On the one hand, her heroine Sharon McCone is in the tradition of American hardboiled crime novels à la Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald , on the other hand, she was a pioneer in this field as a female detective. Your crime novels take place in Muller's home town of San Francisco.

She is married to Bill Pronzini , who is a successful crime writer himself and with whom she also wrote several novels.

Awards

• 1994 Anthony Award - Best Novel category for Wolf in the Shadows (German Wolves and Coyotes )
• 2005 Grand Master Award , the highest award of the Mystery Writers of America (MWA), for special achievements in the crime genre and the consistently high quality of their works
• 2010 Shamus Award - Best Novel category for Locked In
• 2010 Shamus Award - The Hammer category for Sharon McCone as best PI series character

bibliography

Sharon McCone crime novels

• All is not gold ... [The Secret of Edwin Eisenschuh] ( Edwin of the Iron Shoes , 1977)
• Ask the maps ( Ask the Cards a Question , 1982)
• Deadly Play of Colors ( The Cheshire Cat's Eye , 1983)
• Double (with Bill Pronzini, 1984, not published in German)
• The Secret of the Dead Fisherman ( Games to Keep the Dark Away , 1984)
• Leave a Message for Willie (1985, not published in German)
• Nice Neighbors ( There's Nothing to Be Afraid Of , 1985)
• In the Eye of the Storm (1988)
• This Sunday has what it ( There's Something in a Sunday , 1989)
• Murder Without a Corpse ( Shape of Dread , 1989)
• Dead Splendor ( Trophies and Dead Things , 1990)
• No Man's Land ( Where Echoes Live , 1991)
• Last Instance ( Pennies on a Dead Woman's Eyes , 1992)
• Wolves and Coyotes ( Wolf in the Shadows , 1993)
• You can't choose enemies ( Till the Butchers Cut Him Down , 1994)
• A wild and lonely place ( A Wild and Lonely Place , 1995)
• The broken promises ( The Broken Promise Land , 1996)
• At the end of the night ( Both Ends of the Night , 1997)
• When Everyone Else Sleeps ( While Other People Sleep , 1998)
• Playing with Fire ( A Walk Through the Fire , 1999)
• Dangerous Silence ( Listen to the Silence , 2000)
• San Francisco Blues ( Dead Midnight , 2002)
• Too dangerous hour ( The Dangerous Hour , 2004)
• Cape Perdido (2005, not yet published in German)
• Vanishing Point (2006, not yet published in German)
• The Ever-Running Man (2007, not yet published in German)
• Burn Out (2008, not yet published in German)
• Locked In (2009, not yet published in German)

Rhoda Swift crime novels

• Dark Shadows ( Point Deception , 2001)
• Poisonous Water ( Cyanide Wells , 2003)

Other crime novels

• The Boss's Death (older title: Double Bottom Murder) ( The Tree of Death , 1983)

Web links

• Literature by and about Marcia Muller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the author