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Pub Date: March 6, 2012
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN-10: 0425241920
ISBN-13: 978-0425241929

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When the “Way Off Broadway Players” get swept up in a flash flood while sightseeing in Arizona, Rory McCain’s aunt Helene and her fellow amateur thespians survive—with the exception of Preston Wright.

The victim was actually a womanizing scam-artist who duped nearly everyone in the troupe, as well as an ex-con who operated under various aliases. While Preston’s death was deemed to be an “act of nature,” Rory can’t discount the possibility that human nature may have contributed to his drowning.

But even as she investigates the cast of characters to find out which one played the villain, Rory is finally on the verge of solving a cold case -- the murder of her ghost partner, Zeke.



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Former police sketch artist Rory McCain never needed a partner to create a likeness of a suspect. But now, working as a sleuth, she's got a partner who's been dead for over a century...


Ghosts are supposed to be frightening, not exasperating. But Federal Marshal Ezekiel Drummond, aka Zeke, is one spirit who seems to specialize in fraying Rory's nerves. Although it helps to have a lawman as part of her private detective business -- even one who was shot in 1878 -- Rory often wishes she had a silent partner, instead of a dead one.

After a stray dog named Hobo leads Rory back to his murdered owner's corpse, she finds herself involved in another homicide case -- not to mention the new owner of a lovable pooch. Unfortunately the spirit who haunts her house doesn't get along with dogs. Despite this bone of contention, Rory, Zeke, and Hobo are soon on the trail of some deadly dognappers and a missing Maltese...


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To Sketch a Thief

      Pub Date: June 7, 2011
      Publisher: Berkley
      ISBN-10: 0425241920
      ISBN-13: 978-0425241929

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      Pub. Date: August 03, 2010
      Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
      ISBN-13: 9780425236048
      ISBN: 0425236048

She's a police sketch artist. He's a dead lawman. Together, they put a face on murder.


When her uncle dies, police sketch artist Rory McCain get's a list of clients from his private detective business and a beautiful, old house with a ghostly inhabitant: Federal Marshal Ezekiel Drummond, aka Zeke.

Having a ghost as a housemate is bad enough, but as Rory's drawn into one of her uncle's unsolved cases and faces a cold-blooded killer, she may need the marshal's supernatural help to stay alive.

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Sharon's previous books are out of print, but you can find used copies online,
including at AbeBooks.


  • Ghostfire, PocketBooks 1983
  • The Portal, Silhouette Shadows 1994
  • The Godchildren, Berkley 1986

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