Vanishing Point
Written by Marcia Muller
Narrated by Susan Ericksen
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
For a Nevada wedding, the nuptials between Sharon McCone and sexy fellow investigator Hy Ripinsky are downright tasteful: no Elvis impersonators, no plastic flowers, no embarrassing last-minute bailout by a bride well known for her phobia to commitment. This time, McCone has displayed the smarts she uses in her successful detective firm and chosen a guy who respects her as a professional and shares her passions. But living together in her beloved little house on Church Street may be another matter entirely, especially when Hy suggests they need a bigger place.
The looming crisis of who will compromise first is delayed when Hy heads out of town on business and McCone dives into one of her most baffling cases yet—the disappearance of Laurel Greenwood, who vanished twenty-two years before without a trace. Laurel’s grown-up daughter is desperately seeking closure and wants McCone to find out the fate of the young mother and artist who never returned from a day of landscape painting in a Central California coastal town.
The case is cold, and the evidence McCone begins uncovering is chilling. Secrets kept for two decades now emerge to create a portrait of a woman who’s perfect on the surface and anything but a paragon beneath it. And when someone takes potshots at McCone to scare her into dropping her inquiries, the detective’s resolve hardens. She intends to uncover the truth—the whole truth—even when it awakens her suspicions that the bonds of marriage can easily become chains, and that escaping them may lead to desperate acts…or murderous ones.
Marcia Muller
MARCIA MULLER has written many novels and short stories. Her novel Wolf in the Shadows won the Anthony Boucher Award. The recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award - their highest accolade - she lives in northern California with her husband, mystery writer Bill Pronzini.
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Reviews for Vanishing Point
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent, I enjoyed the storyline and the characters were wonderful. The readers made me feel like I was witnessing it unfold in real life... I love a good story, but most of all l love good readers who become the characters they portray. I give 5 STARS in all categories.
Thanks for a great listen .
P. Moore - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
The latest episode in one of my favourite series; I'm a fan, look elsewhere if you want criticism (even the constructive kind).
This is classic McCone, as good as ever. This time she's looking into the over twenty year old disappearance of a young mother; one of her now grown up children wants the case settled.
There's enough of the regular characters (now an enormous cast) but not too much, and plenty enough of a mystery, not too overloaded with twists, not too simple. Perfect as far as I'm concerned. Plenty more please Marcia!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone series is one of the three early and best-known series about American women private investigators, along with Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone and Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski. I've read most of all three, and liked them all, and all have been strong sellers with many volumes in each series. Of the three, Muller's is my consistent favorite, with a strong central character and excellent supporting characters, as well as good polts.Vanishing Point is another quality entry in the series, about an old missing persons case that becomes current as McCone's client also goes missing. It is a tale that shows that we see people as we want to see them, not always as tehy are.Recommended.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I've been a fan of Marcia Muller since the 1980s and this is her latest Sharon McCone novel involving a cold case missing person.