New York Times bestselling author Marcia Muller is at her
page-turning best in The Breakers, as she digs into a particularly
disturbing corner of San Francisco's history--one that Sharon McCone may
not escape alive.
Sharon gets a request from her former neighbors the Curleys. Their
usually dependable daughter, Chelle, hasn't answered their calls in over
a week. Would Sharon check on her?
Chelle, a house flipper, has been living at her latest rehab project: a
Prohibition-era nightclub known as the Breakers, formerly a favored
watering hole for San Francisco's elite, now converted into a run-down
apartment building. There's something sinister about the quirky space,
and Sharon quickly discovers why. Lurking in a secret room between two
floors is a ghastly art gallery: photos and drawings of mass murderers,
long ago and recent. Jack the Ripper. The Zodiac and Zebra killers.
Charles Manson. What, an alarmed Sharon wonders, was Chelle doing in
this chamber of horrors?
And as Sharon begins to suspect that the ghoulish collage may be more
than just a leftover relic of the Breakers' checkered history, her
search for Chelle becomes a desperate race against the clock before a
killer strikes again.
"[Marcia Muller's] stories crackle like few others on the mystery
landscape." -- San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
"Muller undoubtedly remains one of today's best mystery writers." --
Associated Press
