Marcia Muller: The Broken Promise Land (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
Someone is bent on getting revenge on Ricky Savage, Sharon McCone's brother-in-law and a two-time Grammy Award-winning country singer. The danger escalates as Sharon realizes that more than one person has been playing underhanded games -- and that the music industry is truly a broken promise land.

Marcia Muller: The Broken Promise Land. Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 9781455567652 (February, 2016), eBook, 1 MB (ca. 400 p.), $4.99.

Marcia Muller: The Broken Promise Land (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
Someone is bent on getting revenge on Ricky Savage, Sharon McCone's brother-in-law and a two-time Grammy Award-winning country singer. The danger escalates as Sharon realizes that more than one person has been playing underhanded games -- and that the music industry is truly a broken promise land.

Marcia Muller: The Broken Promise Land. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446604100 (June, 1997), 384 p., $6.50.

Marcia Muller: The Broken Promise Land (UK 1996)

From the Publisher:
A new crime novel featuring private investigator Sharon McCone, who steps in to help her brother-in-law, country music star Ricky Savage, when he receives an anonymous threat, and discovers that he has some deadly enemies.

Marcia Muller: The Broken Promise Land. The Women's Press, ISBN: 0704345048 (June, 1996), 388 p., £5.99.

Marcia Muller: The Broken Promise Land (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
Good writers break new ground; great writers create the territory. Marcia Muller initiated the current wave of women private eyes in 1977 with her first Sharon McCone mystery. In book after book, she has dreamed up innovative story lines, introduced unique characters, and let readers witness McCone develop as an outstanding, yet never predictable, investigator. Now the 17th book featuring Sharon McCone adds a thriller's fast action and nail-biting suspense to Muller's superb detective fiction. And this time P.I. McCone is headed into the dark side of the music business, where the dashed hopes of both stars and wannabes become...

The Broken Promise Land
Ricky Savage is Sharon McCone's brother-in-law, and the hottest country singer in the business. He's on top professionally, but hitting rock bottom in his personal life. His longtime marriage to Sharon's sister Charlene is breaking up, forcing him to question if it was all worth it: the struggle, hard times, and hopes of stardom that finally came true. Even worse, Ricky has been getting anonymous letters threatening not only himself, but also his children.

It's a tough case for McCone because her own family is at risk. She can bring in the security firm in which her lover Hy Ripinsky holds an interest to protect Ricky as he begins a promotional tour for his forthcoming album. But unless Ricky lets her into his past and the secrets hidden there, she doesn't have a chance at uncovering the roots of the sick obsession behind the threats.

Despite McCone's precautions, she soon discovers the stalker is very close at hand, upping the ante of terror with clear warnings that he or she can strike anytime - and plans to. Ricky isn't helping either as his marriage crumbles and he turns to another lover, who will complicate his emotional state and McCone's investigation. Now dirty tricks are putting Ricky's career, as well as his life, in jeopardy... and his next Grammy-winning song about shattered hearts and broken promises may be his last.

Marcia Muller: The Broken Promise Land. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892966211 (June, 1996), 388 p., $22.95.