A Wild and Lonely Place (Sharon McCone, #15) by Marcia Muller

A Wild and Lonely Place (Sharon McCone, #15) Reviews

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  SuperWendy

  I was ready for a comfort read, which meant diving back into the McCone series that I have been slowing revisiting. I know I read this sometime around the late 1990s, but darn if I remembered any of it. I starting thinking of this as Muller's Unabomber book and for the most part, I enjoyed it. These older books have "held up" to varying degrees, but this one is probably the most dated thus far given all the technology and early Internet talk. When Mick started explaining to Sharon what e-mail was I got a good chuckle. I, myself, had gotten my first e-mail address right around the time this book was first published, and it's amazing how much of the early online days I had forgotten or blocked out as technology has progressed at light speed. Nowhere near a highlight of the series for me, but I did enjoy it.
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  Pamela Mclaren

  Sharon McCone is helping a friend who serves on a federal task force investigating a series of bombings against diplomatic properties. The latest attacks seem to e focused on teh San Francisco consulate of Azad.
  
  But she's also being pulled into a direction she is not quite comfortable with, working with a private agency that is offering security to the consulate. And what she sees happening in the consulate has McCone seeing red.
  
  It makes for a heady brew where ultimately McCone realizes that she is on her own with only her rules and instincts to guide her.
  
  The McCone character is starting to grow on me. Still not a favorite character and sometimes the dialogue can be distracting as it waivers between 50s style hard boiled to sometimes unrealistically naive, but the stories are usually pretty good and this one will keep readers hooked to the storyline and guessing right up to the last minute as to what will happen and who is the cause.
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  LJ

  A WILD AND LONELY PLACE - Ex
  Muller, Marcia - 15th in series
  
  PI Saron McCone investigates a terrorist bombing at the Consulate of an Arab Emirate. Sharon is thinking only of the million-dollar-reward--until she meets the consul general's daughter. When the girl disappears, Sharon risks everything to save her.
  
  Muller gets better and better.
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  Jim5930

  Good PI & terrorist tell.
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  Helen

  action packed, interesting advance of series characters
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  Gail Burgess

  I actually knew the Diplo-bomber before Sharon did this time! Well, she did have it narrowed down to two-- but then picked the wrong one and I knew it!!! A good read with some major suspense and adventure in the air and at airports. I especially enjoy seeing how Sharon's relationships with RKI, Hy and Mick are changing -- while the friendship with Adah is evolving. The usual favorites -- Hank and Anne-Marie, Ted, Rae, Charlotte and even Gregg Marcus-- are also around to help out. And we get to meet Craig Morland and Habiba.
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  Barbara Nutting

  Read 2007
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  Paige Kuether

  A bit dated, 1995, but still a fun and suspenseful mystery
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  Corinne Stuart

  Could not put it down!!
  
  From the beginning this book was a thriller I couldn’t put down. Worth your while reading this one. Don’t pass it up.
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  kono

  4.1/5☆
  
  I wanna read moaaaarrr-
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  Kenneth Flusche

  Well, how did I miss this thriller in the 90's?
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  Mary

  A good story as usual. Onward.
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  Elizabeth Ruth

  Well holy hell, I have a new lady detective to love.
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  Barbara Mitchell

  This book in the Sharon McCone series by Marsha Muller is an old one; I have a book club edition from 1995. However, it was perfect for reading during a heat wave. I love Sharon McCone. She's gutsy, but worries about her courage, is down to earth, and really cares about people. Muller's stories are tight yet detailed, full of wonderfully described scenery yet stays on point, and she lets Sharon accept help when necessary but also lets her solve things on her own when she can. In other words, McCone is one smart cookie but not to proud to accept help.
  
  This story involves the issue of diplomatic immunity and how it is abused by some countries. Of course, Muller makes up a country for an embassy, but it all sounds very real. In this case, McCone reluctantly signs on for a contract job with RKI, the company Hy, her lover, partially owns and works for. She doesn't really approve of RKI's way of doing things, but she needs the information only they can get, so when Hy's partner offers to work with her on locating a character based on the Unibomber, she takes him up on it. Her motive for continuing in a dangerous mission is to protect an innocent but clever nine-year-old girl.
  
  The story goes from California to the Caribbean and back again. The book is a page turner and although I suspected who the bad guy was, I wasn't real sure until nearly the end. If you've missed this one, I highly recommend it. Good beach reading!
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  aPriL does feral sometimes

  How can I change myself into this woman? For the first time, I understand the urge of 20 year olds who are dressing up like Batman or Star Wars characters. Sigh.
  
  Now that Sharon McCone has her pilot's license, she has extended her reach. In this case she is involved in a serial bombing threat. A madman is setting bombs at certain diplomatic consulates around the U.S., and finally he is after a San Francisco embassy. McCone is called in when her boyfriend's company, RKI, is tasked with the responsibility of security for the Azad consulate, threatened by the bomber in a note. She notices immediately a lot of things wrong there, especially in seeing a little nine year old girl who appears neglected. Soon she is butting heads with Gage Renshaw, her boyfriend Hy Riponsky's business partner, and her temporary employer. One of the other members of the task force to find the bomber is a San Francisco detective, Joslyn Adah, who is also McCone's friend, but she seems to be cracking under unknown pressures. Hy is very sick with a tropical disease, and Mick, her nephew, is pushing McCone into computers, cell phones and BBS boards. Does McCone fold up and hide under the nearest rock?
  
  Read the book and find out!
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  Spuddie

  Another interesting entry in this San Francisco based series featuring PI Sharon McCone. I still find the situations and mysteries she gets herself into to be somewhat ludicrous and hard to swallow with the scope and depth of involvement (national security, the diplomatic community) and find the main character to do some rather idiotic things, given she's supposed to be a smart PI. This is book fifteen in the series, and by rights, she should've been dead around book 3 or at the very least, a traumatized, quivering mass of jelly by this point. LOL But I guess that's true of most mystery series.
  
  Other than that, it was an interesting, fast-paced read and I definitely intend to carry on in the series.
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  Janice

  Back with Sharon McCone as she tries to trace the bomber of ambassadors and their establishments. McCone is focused on the reward until she makes a connection with the granddaughter of the consulate and the girl's American mother (who seems to be held hostage, of a sort). McCone is determined to save them.
  
  Sharon involved with Hy – they own Touchstone together. She still at All Souls but at the end of the book Hank and Annmarie tell her they will disband it. And this is how they become adoptive parents of Habiba. Adah was kidnapped, but she and Sharon still friends. Mick works for her, but not any of the others. Rae not seen in this book, but mentioned.
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  Deb

  Another good story. Sharon McCone finds herself once again working with Gage Renshaw despite her misgivings. She is drawn to Habiba Hamid, the 9 year old daughter of a middle eastern diplomat whose family is the target of the "Diplo-bomber." McCone makes it her mission to keep Habiba safe, and the attempt takes her to a Caribbean island off the coast of St. Martin. One of the things that caught my attention in this book, written in the mid 1990's, was just how much technology has changed since then. Cell phones were just becoming popular and the internet was in its infancy. So for me, the archaic technology became a presence in the story!
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  Melissa

  Marcia, Marcia, Marcia...oh how I love reading about the adventures of Sharon McCone. It's been too long since I sat down with Sharon and crew. I love her toughness and reasoning abilities. But I also love how situations get to her. I feel the real human emotion come through. These books keep getting better and better. This book was written in the early Nineties, so the technology is out of date. But it is fun to see how far we've come with computers, cell phones and the Internet. Looking forward to more adventures.
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  Joy

  In this puzzle about what makes the Diplo-bomber tick, the mesmerizing parts for me are of Sharon as pilot. There are several other threads to the competition to be the first to find whoever is blowing up ambassadors and consulates in the United States. The issue is diplomatic immunity: the apparent main target of revenge committed rape and murder and the US government couldn't do anything about it.
  
  As always, Sharon meets fascinating people. The way Muller writes, we share Sharon's feelings about them. The crisis was almost more than I could wait out.
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  David Freas

  I’ve read several books in this series and thought they were okay – not good enough to put on my ‘must read’ list but good enough to keep in mind when I was hunting for something to read.
  
  This was the first one that really captured my interest. Perhaps it was the plot – the murders of embassy and consulate employees and the kidnapping of a 9-year-old girl – that did it. Or perhaps it was because I’ve gotten to ‘know’ Muller’s main character, Sharon McCone.
  
  Whatever the reason, I now want to read more of the series.