General Information
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 Title:                  SM11 Where Echoes Live
 Author:                 Marcia Muller
 Read By:                Bernadette Dunne
 Copyright:              2000
 Audiobook Copyright:    2000
 Genre:                  Mystery
 Publisher:              Books on Tape
 Series Name:            Sharon McCone
 Position in Series:     11
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 Media:                  CD
 Number:                 09
 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              Fair

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 Total Duration:         10:10:04
 Total MP3 Size:         279.35
 Parity Archive:         No
 Ripped By:              Me
 Ripped With:            Magix
 Encoded At:             CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
 Normalize:              None
 Noise Reduction:        None
 ID3 Tags:               Set, v1.1, v2.3

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Book Description
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From Publishers Weekly
Incorporating current ecological concerns and a flavorsome Western setting,
this 12th Sharon McCone story ( Trophies and Dead Things ) is top-notch.
An investigator for the San Francisco-based All Souls Legal Coop, McCone
is asked by former colleague and friend Anne-Marie Altman to look into
the strange events taking place at Tufa Lake, modeled after Mono Lake
in Yosemite. The Transpacific Corporation has bought the mineral rights
to the lake, and the members of the California Coalition for Environmental
Protection, for which Altman now works, believe the corporation plans
to begin full-scale gold mining--which would endanger the area's fragile
ecosystem as well as the historic buildings of a nearby ghost town.
Meanwhile, the prospector who sold Transpacific the land is missing
and Coalition cabins have been broken into. A murder and a kidnapping
soon follow. McCone realizes that she must get to the bottom of the
land deal before another killing occurs. Muller intertwines McCone's
subliminal dissatisfaction with her current boyfriend and her mother's
quest for a life of her own into this suspenseful and fully fashioned
tale. 

From Kirkus Reviews
Sharon McCone, investigator for San Francisco's All-Souls Legal Co-op
(Eye of the Storm, etc., etc.), is trying to find out what's going on
around the near-ghost town of Promiseville, once a center of gold mining
in California's high desert. A renewed attempt at large-scale mining
on land bought by the Japanese-based Transpacific Corporation has come
to a complete halt. McCone's ex- colleague, Anne-Marie, heads a conservation
group, along with attractive Hy Ripinsky and wimpy Ned Sanderman, that's
worried about the real intentions of Transpacific. Then there are the
seeming disappearance of old-timer Earl Hopwood, who'd sold his land
to the corporation, and the questions of Earl's connection to Mick Erickson,
another seller--a connection that surfaces after Erickson's found shot
to death. Lots of questions--and none better than McCone at ferreting
out answers, despite troubles with lover George, her suddenly liberated
mother, and much uneasy self- analysis. Well-done wilderness background,
a few mildly intriguing characters, and a terse showdown are the best
things in a rambling story that lacks the pithiness and pace of the
author's best work.