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M.C. Stocker

Mystery novels set in the places people love most — and the secrets those places keep.

M.C. Stocker writes literary mysteries built around the landscapes that hold families together and, eventually, pull them apart — from a legendary resort on Hawaii’s Kohala Coast to the fog-covered hills above Silicon Valley. A Murder at the Grand Kohala is his debut novel.

Coming Soon A Murder at Sand Hill Estate, a forthcoming novel by M.C. Stocker
Coming Soon

A Murder at Sand Hill Estate

A Silicon Valley whodunit where one of the biggest fortunes in tech history hides the smallest, most human motive. When Ashley Trippler finds her father dead in his study, it looks like nothing more than an old man’s quiet passing. But when her father’s oldest friend and attorney turns up dead days later, struck down in a hit-and-run on the grounds of an exclusive Menlo Park hotel, the quiet grief of one family collides with the loudest story in the Valley: the imminent, multibillion-dollar IPO of Asterion Robotics, run by Ashley’s brother, Eric.

Detective Frank Griffiths, a lifelong local with no patience for wealth or spectacle, follows the evidence wherever it leads — straight into boardrooms, and the private lives of a family with far more to hide than anyone imagined.

As the case grows more tangled and dangerous, everyone assumes the truth lies with the billionaire founder at the center of it all.

Set against the real hills, restaurants, and back roads of Menlo Park and Silicon Valley, A Murder at Sand Hill Estate is a classic, Columbo-style mystery about ambition, loyalty, and just how far someone might go to protect the life they’ve built.

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