Where Echoes Live Author:Marcia Muller San Francisco private investigator Sharon McCone is asked by a former colleague to meet her in the high desert town of Tufa Lake, near the Nevada border. Her friend Anne Marie Altman is looking into the plans of the Transpacific Corp to reopen a gold mine near the the ghost town of Promiseville, where large scale commercial mining could serious... more »ly damage the ecosystem of the area as well as destroy historic buildings of the town. Some bizarre events have occurred - disappearances, break-ins and a body found floating in a lake. In the course of finding the truth McCone must confront a killer bent on large scale destruction.« less