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While Other People Sleep (Sharon McCone Mysteries)

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In this one Sharon McCone is going against herself, or so it appears. An imposter is using her name and is reading her mind. The book started off real well and I thought it was going to be the best McCone I had read in a while, then, after Sharon found out who the imposter was,the rest was anti-clamatic. Then we got into a severl pages about the planes again. I agree with one of the other reviewers, the books were better when the stories were much more simple. When Sharon was with All Souls. If you want some good reading, read the earlier books and leave the later ones alone.

It used to be that Sharon McCone drove around in a car, gathering clues, using her brain to solve simple, but riveting mysteries. Now she flies a plane, uses computers, her boyfriend is an ex-mercenary who's a partner in a high-tech security firm...What happened to simplicity in mysteries? McCone has gone the way of Scarpetta, who used to be a medical examiner but now seems to be an international solver of terrorist activity. If you need a McCone fix, read one of the old books. Or better yet, Ms. Muller, simplify, simplify...

While Other People Sleep, by Marcia Muller is a mystery book full of intensity and suspense. Each character has some kind of problem that rely on a private investigator, Sharon McCone, to help them. But what she does not see is that she needs help of her own. In Sharon's case it's ironic because her character is a sophisticated, intellectual, employer who is a famous private investigator, who does not realize that there ia an imposter, impersonting her, who is sabotaging her reputation, her life. She is more concerned with assisting others with their problems, trying to get to the bottom of her own case. What is so intriguing about this story is that is gives a full description of each step of the process. Each maneuver that a character does or says is given a fulj detail step-by-step. So when reading and using your imagination simultaneously, it's like being there.

Here is another great read from Muller. She has yet to dissapiont, unlike so many others that we have become accustomed to reading in this catagory. If you are just beginning with her, please start at the beginning of the series. While the ending was mildly anti-clamatic, her only better works were: "Double" and "Where echoes live." Muller is not a 'Sue Grafton,' her stories are not tired an weak. Muller still tells a wonderful story.

I thought that the build-up of the suspense in this book was the best in the series. If you go with the story (and not worry about how accurate all the details are), you'll have a gripping experience that will stay with you with you in the wee hours of the night. The inner journey from disbelief, to fear, to anger was especially rewarding as McCone gets down to finding out what is happening as someone impersonates her. McCone is usually a little too self-contained for my taste, and this book makes her more appealing. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.

in both ends of the night, the eighteenth sharon mccone mystery, marcia muller attempts to convince the reader that her private eye has gotten to be such a celebrity that now some unknown woman is impersonating her! the other woman manages to convince clients and strangers alike that she's the famed investigator. the woman's motivation is murky; once it's finally revealed it leaves the reader disappointed... so much for so little? the sub-plot with ted is distracting at best, and does nothing to develop the characters or the story line. and i'm kind of frustrated with hy's character; i know freedom is the buzzword of sharon's relationship with hy, but the guy's never around when she needs him. they seem to have very little emotional attachment to each other, despite the house they share, maybe the author just needs to develop his character some more, other than reminding us that his beloved wife died years before... maybe muller needs to try something new altogether, mccone's antics are getting old, but she seems almost desperate not to.

Muller maintains her strength of characters and of plot, even 21 years since the first Sharon McCone novel. This one is gripping, tense, and kept me up til 3 in the morning - as the title suggested. It's nice to see Shar poping in on old neighbours and friends as she revisits part of her past. A great read, but if you're new to Muller, start with Edwin of the Iron Shoes and enjoy the whole lot in sequence.

Her best book in the series. I found it exciting.

Just finished Muller's latest - While Other People Sleep - and thoroughly enjoyed it. Muller continues to grow and develop her characters. Even after 19 books, Sharon McCone and her colleagues maintain this reader's attention. The book had great atmosphere. Muller's suberb touch with characterization make it an excellent book to enjoy by the pool, on the beach or curled up at home with a glass of chardonnay.

After the initial 50 pages or so, I became one of the people the title mentions. The plot of this book does not deserve this name, the solution (i.e. the identification of the "bad person") is ridiculous. The final sections seem to have been written because a certain number of pages had to be filled. The basic idea of the book is not bad, but Muller did not manage to develop a full-blown mystery.