This is one of two volumes of short stories featuring Sharon McCone that I’ve been saving for rainy days. I finally finished all the stories and whilst I’m rarely very impressed with short stories in general and these are no exception to that rule there are two stories here that work really well.

This volume of stories covers the time that Sharon spent as the staff investigator at All Souls Legal Cooperative in San Francisco. It’s fun to dive back into these days and see the old characters from the books again. The two stories I love could be considered to be just one story. The opening story covers the day that Sharon is hired by the cooperative, then a group of young and idealistic lawyers, and the closing story covers the day she leaves as the cooperative turns corporate. A single case binds these two stories together and it’s good to see an author using two stories to tell a story that wouldn’t have worked without the time lapse.