The Shape of Dread Author:Marcia Muller Sharon McCone is enlisted into a baffling case that had made lurid headlines two years earlier. — It was then that Bobby Foster, an ex-crack addict and parking valet at the trendy Cafe Comedie, confessed to the kidnapping and murder of a young stand-up comic. At the time of her disappearance, Tracy Kostakos had been drawing droves of fans to the... more » club.
McCone's quiet investigation into the hip stand up comic subculture soon leads to explosive revealations about the darker side of comedy.« less