Eve M. reviewed on 7/12/2006 + 194 more book reviews

In her twelfth outing, P.I. Sharon McCone leaves her San
Francisco turf for the forbidding high desert landscape of Tula lake near the Nevada border. Am environmental group thinks that he Hong Kong based Transpacific Corporation has some dubious plans for an abandoned gold In near the ghost town of Proniseville.
Sharon's investigation takes a grim turn when the bullet-riddled body of a Transpacific employee turns up in Tula Lake. Then a lone prospector suddenly disappears and Lionel Ong. the president of Transpacific, is kidnapped. Has one of the environmental activist perhaps the mysterious Hy Ripinsky, taken matters into his own hands?
As she pieces together the interlocking puzzle of personal histories and private interests that led to murder, Sharon finds that her heart wont't follow where her logic leads It takes a final explosive confrontation and a hard look at her won darkest impulses to solve the most disturbing case of her career.

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