I've said that Marcia Muller's Shraron McCone has never really slumped, but I've now read two consecutive books which, while good, are not up to her standards. Looking for Yesterday (which precedes The Night Searchers) was entertaining and engrossing, but it never quite added up.
McCone Investigations has relocated to a quaint but inconvenient building (found by office manager Ted Smalley) and Sharon isn't coping well with the transition or the balky elevator. Grumpily arranging her office, she takes on Caro Warrick's quest to prove her innocence. Warrick was acquitted of murdering her best friend, but that's not enough for a young woman devoted to the gun control movement. Someone beats Warrick and leaves her for dead on Sharon's doorstep soon after, and Sharon continues the case on her own, while being stalked and threatened by an unknown assailant. Is her stalking connected to her case? In the end, it doesn't really matter because Muller uses it to set up the subplot of The Night Searchers (the potential merger of McCone Investigations with her husband's Ripinski International).
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