Marcia Muller: While Other People Sleep (USA 2008)

From the Publisher:
It starts when Sharon McCone's acquaintance tells her that someone was pretending to be the private eye at a party. Sharon investigates further and discovers that the imposter has no qualms about mixing business with sex. Even more alarming, the faux McCone is cancelling Sharon's credit cards, invading her home, and making frightening calls to family members. But when Sharon is almost arrested for a crime committed by the imposter, the determined P.I. pulls out all the stops in her search for a criminal hitting far too close to home.

Marcia Muller: While Other People Sleep. Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 9780446549721 (November, 2008), eBook, 407 KB (ca. 344 p.), $9.99.

Marcia Muller: While Other People Sleep (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
With her agency going great guns, Sharon McCone is known as one of the best detectives in the business...until her reputation is threatened by an impostor. The woman's resemblance to McCone is uncanny. Her knowledge of McCone's life is chilling. And with lover Hy Ripinsky away on business, McCone is alone as the double insidiously sabotages McCone's career, invades her home, and leads her into a deadly game of cat and mouse through San Francisco's underworld. Now, with professional detachment giving way to blinding rage, McCone is fighting for her life. But her very essence is also at stake... as a hunger for personal justice overrides her fiercely held ethics and lets loose a primeval urge for revenge.

Marcia Muller: While Other People Sleep. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446607215 (May, 1999), 282 p., $6.99.

Marcia Muller: While Other People Sleep (UK 1998)

From the Publisher:
Sharon McCone is known as one of the best detectives in the business - until her untarnished reputation is threatened by an impostor. With her very identity under attack, McCone must track down an unknown enemy, whose better motive and disturbed agenda looks set to destroy her life...

Marcia Muller: While Other People Sleep. A Sharon McCone Crime Thriller. The Women's Press, ISBN: 0704346141 (September, 1998), 282 p., £6.99.

Marcia Muller: While Other People Sleep (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
Bestselling author Marcia Muller is widely considered the creator of the contemporary female detective. Her groundbreaking, long-running series, now over two decades old, features San Francisco-based investigator Sharon McCone. An intriguingly complex character, McCone has evolved from a 70s idealistic crime fighter into a formidable, battle-tested veteran who has not lost her passion for justice. Now, in the nineteenth book of the series, McCone faces a frightening midlife crisis that will truly test her mettle: her ethics are being replaced by another guiding force. Vengeance.

WHILE OTHER PEOPLE SLEEP

With her agency going great guns, Sharon McCone is known as one of the best detectives in the business... until her untarnished reputation is threatened by an impostor. A mysterious woman is handing out McCone's business cards, advising clients, and picking up men for intimate encounters. The woman's physical resemblance to McCone is uncanny. Her knowledge of McCone's life is chilling.

More than professionally damaging, the situation is deeply disturbing even to the experienced McCone. Who is this strange woman and what does she want? To make matters worse, McCone's office manager, Ted Smalley, has been acting so oddly that his live-in lover asks McCone to investigate. With her own lover, Hy Ripinsky, away on business and an impersonator invading her life, McCone reluctantly agrees.

Spying on Ted soon has her pondering the extent of a person's right to privacy. Then the issue is brought home when McCone's double breaks into her house, interferes with her family, and leads McCone on a terrifying game of cat and mouse through the bizarre nightside of San Francisco. Just as McCone begins to uncover Ted's desperate problem, the impostor escalates her dirty tricks. With her professional detachment fast giving way to blinding rage, McCone must go one on one against an enemy with a sinister motive, an insidious plan... and the kind of violent craziness that even a seasoned investigator may not foresee-or stop in time.

Marcia Muller: While Other People Sleep. A Mystery. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892966505 (July, 1998), 282 p., $23.00.