The Shape of Dread

A Sharon McCone Mystery, Book 10

By: Marcia Muller

Narrated by: Laura Hicks

Bobby Foster, car-hop at the chic Cafe Comedie, is going to the gas chamber. He's already confessed to the murder of Tracy Kostakos, the club's rising star. But two years after the crime, Tracy's body is still missing and Bobby's confession is full of holes. All Souls Legal Cooperative's final appeal sends San Francisco's number-one P.I., Sharon McCone, behind the footlights into the super-charged arena of anxious club owners and aspiring young hopefuls...into the fractured world of Tracy's priviledged family and the mind of a young comedienne who was not the good little girl they thought they knew...into a labyrinth of death and deception where someone will kill to laugh last and get away with murder.

©1989 The Pronzini-Muller Family Trust (P)2012 AudioGO

What a twist

What did you love best about The Shape of Dread?

I really enjoy the Sharon McCone series! This book had a nice twist!

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Nice Twist

Badly dated

I've been cruising through the books in this series which I originally read many years ago. They mysteries are solid, but the attitudes are so dated that they have begun to affect my mood. There's dysfunctional relationships, racism, sexism, homophobia and fatphobia to name a few. The protagonist has begun to spend a lot of time whining about things that are in her power to correct and that has gotten old quickly. Time to move on to something else.