Marcia Muller. There’s Something in a Sunday (1989)

     Marcia Muller. There’s Something in a Sunday (1989) Sharon McCone is one of the first chick PIs among an ever expanding group. She’s a first person narrator, so we get her thoughts and reactions first hand, and occasionally they don’t ring true: she has to tell us stuff that we should be able to infer from her actions. And she should tell us more of her thinking about the case itself. It’s a complex one, starting with a murder that the cops want to pin on a homeless man. But Sharon knows there’s more to it than that, and eventually unravels it. A second man dies, and it’s this death that presumably gives Sharon the insight she needs. But since we don’t share in her thinking, we are left to guess and gasp with surprise when the murderer (the second victim’s wife) is revealed. *-½ (2004)