Gage Renshaw was supposed to be dead. At least that
was what Sharon McCone and Hy Ripinsky had thought until his unwelcome
appearance at the building in San Francisco. Why he is back now and what he
wants isn’t clear, but the guy is certainly bad news and well known for his
mind games and other tactics.
That problem though has to take a back seat to what
they do on a daily basis for their clients. October grinds on with Hy out of town on FBI
business and Sharon handling everything else. That includes a deal involving Chad
Kenyon who has a situation that needs to be handled. One of the two Kenyon
brothers, they have a reputation for buying things and selling them almost as
quickly while making a very nice profit in the deal. They are a force, not just
in San Francisco, but across most of the western states. The money is not what
drives them as they are the type that love the acquisition chase and making the
deal.
Their recent deal to buy an abandoned house on Webster
Street has become a problem. They moved too fast to buy the derelict and were
not aware that folks of all types are going in and out of the place at all
hours of the day and night. Other issues have arisen making it quite the
neighborhood nuisance. Kenyon wants McCone to get the place cleared out and
secured and wants it done as cheap as possible.
McCone works out a deal with Kenyon and puts her
people on it. As part of that work, those that go in to the place are investigated
as well as the history of the house itself. That trail has many leads with
one in particular taking her to Mexico and back. All the while, Renshaw is
present in the shadows of their lives doing what he does to bedevil all
involved.
Someone Always Knows: A Sharon McCone
Mystery is the latest in the long running series penned by Marcia Muller.
Old entanglement and memories play a major role in the read. Much like the flat
cover art, the read itself is rather flat even at what are supposed to be
suspenseful moments. It lacks that certain something that makes it stand out.
That essential element that drives this series is not present at all resulting in
an average book when the reader expects far more from this series and this
author. Because so much of the past is heavily referenced in this book, those unfamiliar
with the series will save lots of time in reading previous novels.
Someone Always
Knows: A Sharon McCone Mystery
Marcia Muller
Grand Central
Publishing (Hachette Book Group)
2016
ISBN#
978-1-4555-2795-3
Hardback
(also available in eBook and audio formats)
304 Pages
(actual text is 292 pages)
$26.00
Material supplied by the good people of the Plano
Public Library System.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2016
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2 comments:
Sounds great. I love titles with simple, everyday phrases or statements that pull in your curiosity when put in a title. Yes, someone usually knows, but I'm thinking who is it in the book and what is the significance of the statement? I have a feeling every reader will "get this" once they've read the book.
I would think so. In this case it could be interpreted in a couple of different ways.
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