Monday, October 31, 2011

City of Whispers

City of Whispers;FICTION - ADULT: Mystery, Detective, Suspense & Thrillers written by Marcia Muller.
Sharon McCone is a P.I. married to Hy. They live in San Francisco. Sharon had been injured and required a year of physical therapy and is just now getting back to work regularly.
Sharon's birth Mom, Saskia Blackhawk  was an attorney in Boise, Id. Sharon called her when she received a strange e-mail from her half brother Darcy needing help. Darcy was a troubled young man  on drugs and often living on the streets. Sharon had not known he was in S.F.
Sharon starts the wheels moving to try to locate Darcy. She locates the place where the e-mail was sent from.When she spoke to lady working there she found Darcy was with another lady and mentioned  " The palace and Coral Tree".
When Sharon finds Laura dead from drug overdose at the Palace of Fine Arts she tries to figure out her connection to Darcy.
Darcy is being kept drugged. The people who have him are trying to get information from him but he doesn't know anything.
They find Gaby's tombstone under a coral tree. Gaby was murdered at age 18. Case unsolved. Gaby had been a heiress and left money to homeless shelters. The overseer was Clarence Drew a man who was thought to have molested Gaby as a child.

As they hunt for Darcy they were trying to find Lady Laura, Tic-tack Jack, & Nobody.When they realized Laura was dead and Nobody was killed soon after they headed to Jack's but he and his family had disappeared.
Sharon went back to speak to Mr Drew and found him hanging from the ceiling with a suicide note nearby.

Read this book to solve the mystery and locate Darcy.

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