Sue Dunlap, Author, Susan Dunlap, Author Five Star (ME) $24.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-7862-4173-6
Five Star offers four new story collections from its stable of talented mystery writers. Berkeley copper Jill Smith investigates the murder of a guru and a series of very bizarre burglaries in Macavity Award-winning author Susan Dunlap's Karma ...
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Susan Dunlap, Author . Carroll & Graf $24.95 (375p) ISBN 978-0-78671-850-4
Anthony-winner Dunlap, author of the Jill Smith mysteries (Sudden Exposure
, etc.) and Kiernan O'Shaughnessy series (A Pious Deception
, etc.), introduces another brilliant but vulnerable heroine, Darcy Lott, a stuntwoman with a secret. After a...
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Susan Dunlap, Author . Counterpoint $25 (265p) ISBN 978-1-58243-417-9
In Anthony-winner Dunlap's intriguing second mystery to feature Buddhist stuntwoman Darcy Lott (after 2007's A Single Eye
), Darcy returns to her native San Francisco, where she attends the opening ceremony of a new Buddhist zendo center....
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Susan Dunlap, Author . Counterpoint $25 (264p) ISBN 978-1-58243-452-0
In Dunlap's absorbing third mystery to feature San Francisco stuntwoman Darcy Lott (after 2008's Hungry Ghosts
), Darcy's lawyer brother, Gary, persuades Darcy to entertain Karen Johnson, a mysterious client of his. Karen claims to be
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Susan Dunlap, Counterpoint, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-1-58243-542-8
In Dunlap's subdued fourth mystery to feature San Francisco stunt double Darcy Lott (after 2009's Civil Twilight), Darcy's on-again/off-again boyfriend and fellow stuntman, Damon Guthrie, confesses part of a shameful secret about his past. Before...
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Susan Dunlap, Author Villard Books $16.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-394-57168-3
At the promising start to a new detective series by the author of the Jill Smith mysteries, a young priest is found hanged in particularly compromising circumstances in his parish church in Phoenix, Ariz. To determine whether the death was suicide...
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Susan Dunlap, Author Delacorte Press $20.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-31600-2
This 10th entry in Dunlap's Jill Smith series (after Sudden Exposure) is a deft and engrossing treatment of greed, trust and betrayal that puts a new spin on political correctness. Smith's police work in Berkeley, Calif., involves her with people on
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Susan Dunlap, Author St. Martin's Press $12.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-312-57947-0
Berkeley cop Jill Smith, newly promoted to homicide detective, has a puzzle on her hands. Wealthy Ralph Palmerston, an influential member of Berkeley high society, was killed when his Cadillac's brakes failed on the city's steepest hill on the...
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Susan Dunlap, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-312-01019-5
Jill Smith returns to duty as a homicide detective in this exhilarating addition to the series set in chi-chi Berkeley, Calif. Killed by aconite slipped into his private stash of horseradish, Mitchell Biekma was in the kitchen of his wildly popular...
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Susan Dunlap, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-312-03814-4
The prospect of a pleasant day with her partner/lover is dashed for California detective Jill Smith when she is called in to investigate a felony assault on a nude, sunbathing dentist who claims he was attacked by a branch of a eucalyptus tree. In...
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Susan Dunlap, Author Delacorte Press $18.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-385-30444-3
Realistic scenes of police life from routine paperwork to by-the-book standoffs with criminals sustain this straightforward mystery, sixth in Dunlap's ( Death and Taxes ) Jill Smith series. After reports of a kidnapping, a hostage negotiation team...
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Susan Dunlap, Author Delacorte Press $19.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-385-31024-6
Kiernan O'Shaugnessy, the doughty, acid-tongued 40-ish PI and former forensic pathologist introduced in A Pious Deception, moves inside the Hollywood stunt world to probe two murders spaced 10 years apart. The stunt lore and forensics in the latest...
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Susan Dunlap, Author Delacorte Press $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-31025-3
Berkeley, Calif., police officer Jill Smith, last seen in Time Expired, turns in another absorbing performance in a case that blends the colorful eccentricities of Berkeley and the drab procedures of law enforcement. Squabbles between aging radical...
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Susan Dunlap, Author Crippen & Landru Publishers $40 (215p) ISBN 978-1-885941-53-4
Susan Dunlap (No Immunity) presents The Celestial Buffet and Other Morsels of Murder, some of which feature series heroine Jill Smith. In the title story, the protagonist unexpectedly finds herself dead and destined for she knows not where. The...
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Susan Dunlap. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8522-7
Dunlap’s engaging sixth Darcy Lott mystery (after 2012’s No Footprints) finds the San Francisco stuntwoman in fine form, at least physically. The shortage of jobs as the movie industry moves to cheaper, more welcoming cities doesn’t make Darcy happy,
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Susan Dunlap. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8601-9
Family takes a central role in Dunlap’s solid seventh mystery featuring San Francisco stuntwoman and Zen student Darcy Lott (after 2015’s Switchback). Mike, the older brother Darcy adored who was mysteriously MIA for decades until she tracked him...
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