The Shape of Dread
- Author Marcia Muller
- Narrator Laura Hicks
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 1 October 2011
- Run Time 9 hours and 5 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction.
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Bobby Foster, carhop 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 PI 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 privileged family and the mind of a young comedienne who was not the good little girl they thought they knew, and into a labyrinth of death and deception where someone will kill to laugh last and get away with murder.
Critics Review
u201cWith this extraordinarily complex, gripping novel, Muller surpasses the previous stories of Sharon McConeu2026Evoking the atmosphere of San Franciscou2019s special places, Muller makes one feel particularly the u2018shape of dreadu2019 on death row and provokes thought on the finality of capital punishment.u201d
u201cMcCone remains an engaging detective, and Muller excels at exploring localesu2014e.g., the seldom-seen underbelly of San Franciscou2019s projects, neatly juxtaposed against the Mediterranean architecture of the cityu2019s Marina district.u201d
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