Marcia Muller: Wolf in the Shadows (UK 2015)

From the Publisher:
A personal case for Marcia Muller's popular PI Sharon McCone
Sharon McCone is wrestling with the newly corporate nature of the firm that employs her in her PI endeavours when her boyfriend Hy Ripinsky disappears. He was delivering a $2 million ransom to the abductors of the CEO of a biotech company about to market a cancer drug. The drug, extracted from dolphin cartilage, has roused the fear and ire of environmentalist groups with whom Hy had once been associated. The high-tech security outfit is convinced Hy has stolen the ransom; Sharon, unsure of anything, says she'll find him and get back the money. Evading their suspicious operatives and the cops, she infiltrates southern California's community of illegals, makes some valuable friends and fierce enemies and learns in a final, breathtaking confrontation the full extent of her own resources.

Marcia Muller: Wolf in the Shadows. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Sphere, ISBN: 9780751563405 (October, 2015), eBook, 1181 KB (ca. 268 p.), £2.99.

Marcia Muller: Wolf in the Shadows (USA 2009)

From the Publisher:
Muller's popular heroine, San Francisco sleuth Sharon McCone, faces her greatest challenge when her boyfriend disappears while delivering a $2 million ransom for a kidnapped researcher. Each of Muller's mysteries sells more than the previous, and this 14th ties into her new July hardcover Till the Butchers Cut Him Down.

Marcia Muller: Wolf in the Shadows. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 9780446561594 (May, 2009), 920 KB (ca. 336 p.), $9.99.

Marcia Muller: Wolf in the Shadows (USA 1994)

From the Publisher:
San Francisco's P.I. Sharon McCone isn't ready at all to cope with the disaster. Just when All Souls Legal Cooperative hands her an ultimatum that will tie her to a desk forever, Hy Ripinsky, her lover and an environmental activist, suddenly vanishes. Determined to find him, Sharon puts her career crisis on hold, only to discover Hy's abandoned plane, wrecked rental car, and the intrigues of a shady international security firm. From her family's San Diego homestead, to an opulent villa on the Mexican coast, to the treacherous canyons stretching back across the border, she'll search for clues - and come face-to-face with her own issues. For soon, caught in the gunsight of a cunning killer, she'll have to make hair-trigger choices about her future, her life, and everything she holds dear.

Marcia Muller: Wolf in the Shadows. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446403830 (July, 1994), 370 p., $5.50.

Marcia Muller: Wolf in the Shadows (UK 1994)

From the Publisher:
A further mystery to feature private eye Sharon McCone, who is issued with an ultimatum by her old employers - to take a promotion - a desk job designed to curb her often unorthodox behaviour - or leave, just when her new lover has gone missing.

Marcia Muller: Wolf in the Shadows. A Sharon McCone Mystery. The Women's Press, ISBN: 0704343894 (February, 1994), 342 p., £5.99.

Marcia Muller: Wolf in the Shadows (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
In Sharon McCone, Marcia Muller has created the mold for the modern female detective. "The founding mother of the contemporay female hard-boiled private eye," (Sue Grafton) Muller has set the standard on which Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone and Sara Paretsky's V. I. Warshawski are modeled. Now Muller sends her free spirited heroine on a perilous journey of the heart that leads back to her San Diego roots and across the Mexican border where death waits like a...

WOLF IN THE SHADOWS

Successful in her investigative work for All Souls Legal Cooperative, happy with her newly renovated house, and feeling somewhat more secure in her relationship with the mysterious environmental activist, Hy Ripinsky, Sharon is shocked to find herself suddenly faced with a wrenching ultimatum. No longer a small, informal co-op, All Souls has grown. New legal partners, exasperated with Sharon's free-wheeling ways, want to kick her upstairs with a raise, perks, and a "career opportunity" that will chain her to a desk forever.

Offered a take-it-or-leave-it deal, Sharon is in turmoil. And to make matters worse, Hy has disappeared. His abandoned plane, wrecked rental car, and a road map point to RKI, a firm of international security consultants with a reputation for questionable, unorthodox tactics and clients engaged in controversial research. Sharon discovers that they hired Hy as a free-lance operative and that they, too, are looking for him.

Determined to find out what has happened, Sharon pushes aside her career concerns at All Souls and plunges into a search that will force her to take unlikely sanctuary in her abandoned San Diego childhood home and find and unexpected ally in her wild, unpredictable brother John. From the drive-by hiring hall for illegal aliens in Imperial Beach to an opulent villa on the Mexican coast, she will track down every clue in a complex plot that builds to a breathtaking climax on the treacherous canyon trails that lead back across the border. There, in a no-man's-land where terrified pollos defy la migra in a desperate bid for freedom... and where decisions won't wait, Sharon must make the tough choices that put her own life, her own freedom, and everything she holds dear at deadly risk.

Marcia Muller: Wolf in the Shadows. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892965258 (July, 1993), 356 p., $18.95.