Marcia Muller (born September 28, 1944 ) is an American author of mystery and thriller novels. Muller has written many novels featuring her Sharon McCone female private detective character. Vanishing Point won the Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel. Muller had been nominated for the Shamus Award four times previously. 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. 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.

Sharon McCone Series

• # Edwin of the Iron Shoes (October, 1977) • # Ask the Cards A Question (May, 1982) • # The Cheshire Cat's Eye (January, 1983) • # Games to Keep the Dark Away (1984) • # Leave A Message for Willie (September, 1984) • # Double (October, 1984) (co-written with her husband, Bill Pronzini, also a crossover with Pronzini's Nameless Detective series) • # There's Nothing to Be Afraid of (August, 1985) • # Eye of the Storm (March, 1988) • # There's Something in A Sunday (January, 1989) • # The Shape of Dread (November, 1989) • # Trophies and Dead Things (September, 1990) • # Where Echoes Live (July, 1991) • # Pennies on A Dead Woman's Eyes (July, 1992) • # Wolf in the Shadows (July, 1993) • # Till the Butchers Cut Him Down (July, 1994) • # A Wild and Lonely Place (August, 1995) • # The Broken Promise Land (June, 1996) • # Both Ends of the Night (July, 1997) • # While Other People Sleep (July, 1998) • # A Walk Through the Fire (May, 1999) • # Listen to the Silence (July, 2000) • # Dead Midnight (July, 2002) • # The Dangerous Hour (July, 2004) • # Vanishing Point (July, 2006) • # The Ever-Running Man (July, 2007) • # Burn Out (October, 2008) • # Locked In (October, 2009) • # Coming Back (October, 2010) • # City of Whispers (October, 2011) • # Looking For Yesterday (November, 2012) • # The Night Searchers (July, 2014) • # Someone Always Knows (July, 2016) • # The Color of Fear (August, 2017) • # The Breakers (August, 2018) • # Ice and Stone (August, 2021) • # Circle in the Water (April, 2024) • The McCone Files (Crippen & Landru,1994) (short story collection) • McCone and Friends (Crippen & Landru, 1999) (short story collection)

Carpenter and Quincannon Mysteries

Elena Oliverez series

Joanna Stark series

Soledad County series

Anthologies and collections

Non-fiction

Stand alone novels