While Other People Sleep [Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Marcia Muller (Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1998

With her agency going great guns, Sharon McCone enjoys a reputation as one of the best detectives in the business. And thanks to a People magazine article, her profile is a lot higher these days and her digs decidedly more upscale. But the price of fame is high as an impersonator is threatening to tarnish her reputation. The faux McCone is handing out Sharon's business cards, sleeping with her clients and then stealing from them, and threatening Sharon's family and friends. She bears a remarkable physical resemblance to McCone, but more alarming is herknowledge of McCone's personal life. When her double breaks into her home, McCone knows she's up against an enemy with a plan so vicious that it will almost certainly be fatal to one of them."Gripping...As always, Muller's straightforward, no-nonsense writing and fully dimensioned characterizations lend credibility and color to her deftly plotted tale." (San Francisco Chronicle)

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Books On Tape (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736643184
• ISBN-13: 978-0736643184
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,285,297 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars McCONE vs McCONE, April 28, 2001

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Mac Blair "Mac Blair" (Huntingdon, TN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: While Other People Sleep (Sharon McCone Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars High-tech, low entertainment, October 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: While Other People Sleep (Sharon McCone Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

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...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What If It Happened To You, June 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: While Other People Sleep (Sharon McCone Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

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.