Marcia Muller

Marcia Muller (born 1944) is an American author best known for her Sharon McCone mystery series, starting with Edwin of the Iron Shoes (1977), featuring one of the first female private investigators in contemporary crime fiction, spanning over 35 novels. She has won the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award (2005), Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award (1993), Anthony Award for Wolf in the Shadows (1994), Shamus Awards for Vanishing Point (2007) and Locked In (2010), among others, and frequently collaborates with her husband Bill Pronzini.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Muller],[https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/muller-marcia-1944]