A review by robinsbooks
Burn Out by Marcia Muller

5.0

I have been reading Marcia Muller's mysteries since I discovered women mystery writers waaaay back when. Marcia's Sharon McCone series has always been at the top of my list and she never disappoints. In BURN OUT, Sharon is at Hy's high desert ranch in Owens Valley, trying to get over her depression after almost losing her life in a previous case and deciding what her her futures holds (should she sell her business and completely get out of investigating?). But this alone would not make for an interesting plot so she reluctantly gets involved in the disappearance of a local teen, which, of course, evolves into something much more complicated.

Again, Muller evokes a wonderful sense of place and her travels from one end of the valley to the other, including Hawthorne, a one-horse town in the middle of Nevada nowhere, are dead-on and become an integral part of the story.