Marcia Muller (born September 28, 1944All Book Store bibliography retrieved 8th December 2007) is an American author of mystery and thriller novels.Hachette Book Group USA retrieved 8th December 2007
Muller has written many novels featuring her Sharon McCone female private detective character. Vanishing Point won the Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel.Shamus Awards Archive retrieved 8th December 2007 Muller had been nominated for the Shamus Award four times previously.Fantastic Fiction retrieved 8th December 2007
In 2005, Muller was awarded the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master award.
She was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in Birmingham, Michigan, and graduated in English from the University of Michigan and worked as a journalist at Sunset magazine.page 181, Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, She is married to detective fiction author Bill Pronzini with whom she has collaborated on several novels.
Awards In 1993, Muller was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA). In 2010, Muller's character Sharon McCone won the PWA's Hammer Prize. +Awards for Muller's writingYearTitleAwardResult19871001 MidnightsMacavity Award for Best Mystery Nonfiction/Critical BookWinner1990"Deadly Fantasies" in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery MagazineShamus Award for Best Short StoryFinalistThe Shape of DreadShamus Award for Best NovelFinalist1991"Final Resting Place" in Justice for HireShamus Award for Best Short StoryFinalist1992Where Echoes LiveShamus Award for Best NovelFinalist1994Wolf in the Shadows Anthony Award for Best NovelWinnerDilys AwardFinalistEdgar Allan Poe Award for Best NovelFinalistShamus Award for Best NovelFinalist1996A Wild and Lonely Place Macavity Award for Best NovelFinalist2001Listen to the Silence Anthony Award for Best NovelFinalistShamus Award for Best NovelFinalist2007Vanishing Point Shamus Award for Best NovelFinalist2010Locked In Barry Award for Best NovelFinalistShamus Award for Best NovelWinner
Published works
Novels The Rockspur Eleven (1978) – a YA novel The Arborgate (1980) – a supernatural suspense novel
Sharon McCone series
Carpenter and Quincannon Mysteries The Bughouse Affair (2013) (co-written with Bill Pronzini) The Spook Lights Affair (2013) (co-written with Bill Pronzini) The Body Snatchers Affair (2015) (co-written with Bill Pronzini) The Plagues of Thieves Affair (2016) (co-written with Bill Pronzini) Dangerous Ladies Affair (2017) (co-written with Bill Pronzini) The Bags of Tricks Affair (2018) (Pronzini & Muller). Quarry (Pronzini & Muller, 2019)
Elena Oliverez series The Tree of Death (1983) The Legend of the Slain Soldiers (1985) Beyond the Grave (1986) (co-written with Bill Pronzini)
Joanna Stark series The Cavalier in White (1986) There Hangs the Knife (1988) Dark Star (1989)
Soledad County series Point Deception (2001) Cyanide Wells (2003) Cape Perdido (2005)
Anthologies and collections The Web She Weaves (1983) (co-written with Bill Pronzini) Witches Brew: Horror and Supernatural Stories by Women (1984) (co-written with Bill Pronzini) Child's Ploy: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories (1984) (co-written with Bill Pronzini) She Won the West: An Anthology of Western and Frontier Stories by Women (1985) (co-written with Bill Pronzini) Dark Lessons: Crime and Detection on Campus (1985) (co-written with Bill Pronzini) Kill or Cure: Suspense Stories About the World of Medicine (1985) (co-written with Bill Pronzini) The Deadly Arts: A Collection of Artful Suspense (1985) (co-written with Bill Pronzini) Chapter and Hearse: Suspense Stories About the World of Books (1985) (co-written with Bill Pronzini) The Wickedest Show on Earth: A Carnival of Circus Suspense (1985) (co-written with Bill Pronzini) Partners in Crime (1986, with Bill Pronzini) Lady on the Case: 21 Stories and 1 Complete Novel Starring the World's Great Female Sleuths (1988) (co-written with Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg) Women’s Eye, Woman’s Hand (1990, co-editor) Deceptions (1991) (short story collection) Grand Sleuths (1992, with Bill Pronzini) The McCone Files (Crippen & Landru,1994) (short story collection) Detective Duos: The Best Adventures of Twenty-Five Crime-Solving Twosomes (1997) (co-written with Bill Pronzini) Duo (1998) (short story collection) (co-written with Bill Pronzini) McCone and Friends (Crippen & Landru, 1999) (short story collection) Time of the Wolves (2003) (Western short story collection) Somewhere in the City (2007) (short story collection) Crucifixion River (2007) (short story collection) (co-written with Bill Pronzini)
Non-fiction 1001 Midnights: The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction (1986) (co-written with Bill Pronzini)
References
Further reading
External links Marcia Muller's Official Website