Wolf in the Shadows - Marcia Muller
A reader with some pretentions to taste would expect, after a dozen installments in a series, to hear the gears grinding in the thirteenth in a series. But not at all in this case because Sharon McCone, the baddest female PI in San Francisco, learns, grows, and changes from book to book.
This 1993 mystery deals with the issues of immigration and dolphin-protecting environmentalists. With her bosses going all corporate on her and pressuring her to accept sitting at desk and moving papers around, she proves herself to be the Coolest Toughest Girlfriend Ever and works on finding her missing boyfriend Hy Ripinsky who has gone missing.
As usual, the characterizations, even of the secondary characters, are very finely drawn, as are the settings. Nothing mars the elaborate plot but a couple of melodramatic scenes. Worth reading.
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