Games to Keep the Dark Away by Marcia Muller

In the town is a plush and expensive hospice where Jane and Liz once worked. The trail leads to Jane's once well to do hometown of Salmon Bay, to her bitter mother, hostile neighbors, Tide Pools and a deserted amusement park. Sharon McCone, Muller's female detective, who practices her investigative trade in and around San Francisco, is hired by a famous, reclusive photographer Abe Snelling, to find his vanished lodger Jane Anthony, whose friend Liz Schaff also seems worried by her absence. In “Games to Keep the Dark Away”, number four in the series by Marcia Muller. Martins Press First Edition hardcover is signed by Marcia Muller. The Mulzinis, as friends call them, live in Sonoma County, California, in yet another house full of books.

Pronzini was named Grand Master in 2008, making them the only living couple to share the award (the other being Margaret Millar and Ross Macdonald). In 2005 Muller was named a Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America, the organization's highest award. Muller received the Shamus Award, 'The Eye' (Lifetime achievement award) in 1993. Together she and Pronzini have edited a dozen anthologies and a nonfiction book on the mystery genre. In the ensuing thirty-some years, Muller has authored over 35 novels-three of them in collaboration with husband Bill Pronzini-seven short-story collections, and numerous nonfiction articles. In the early 1970s, having moved to California, Muller found herself unemployable and began experimenting with mystery novels. A native of the Detroit area, Marcia Muller grew up in a house full of books and self-published three copies of her first novel at age twelve, a tale about her dog complete with primitive illustrations.

Games to Keep the Dark Away by Marcia Muller