Susan Dunlap

Zen student and stunt double Darcy Lott wonders whether she can trust her own brother in this intriguing mystery. Darcy Lott is thrilled to be reunited with her brother Mike, who disappeared twenty years earlier.

This superb collection of nine detective stories focuses on the police procedural genre where crime investigation takes on a sense of reality....

Fred Astaire has a headache named Luna. The moll of a well-known Los Angeles gangster, Luna has demanded dance lessons from Hollywood’s finest hoofer, and whatever Luna wants, Luna gets....

To escape arrest for her best friend’s murder, Vejay must find the real killer - before it’s too late....

Each year the Bohemian Club - a clique of powerful conservatives whose ranks include Nixon, Reagan, and Kissinger - gathers for a confidential meeting in the backwoods town of Henderson, California....

A mad Nazi plot gives Cassidy a chance to save his estranged wife - or lose her forever....

In a city of rule breakers, she's the law. But in a hunt for a killer, she's breaking all the rules....

When a young gymnast dies performing a world-famous stunt, Kiernan suspects foul play....

A woman’s life is upended after she witnesses the aftermath of a deadly crime....

After six months of perfect weather, the people of Berkeley, California, have forgotten how to drive during a thunderstorm....

Although the citizens of Berkeley are famously tolerant, that progressive attitude disappears at the property line between the homes of Dr. Hasbrouck Diamond and Leila Sandoval....

In Berkeley, California, Telegraph Avenue is the headquarters for the city’s strangest inhabitants....

Berkeley cop Jill Smith is back in another adventure that could only occur in this brazen, eccentric town....

A call from an ex-husband is never welcome. For Berkeley cop Jill Smith it wins a Nobel Prize for chutzpah....

A town as diverse as Berkeley, California, is never without controversy....

Until the helicopter crash, Jill Smith never knew fear. A homicide detective in the leftist enclave of Berkeley, California, she has faced down her share of thugs, thieves, and killers....

It was part street theater, part civil disobedience, and pure Berkeley: Someone was waging guerrilla warfare on the city's meter maids and their beloved parking meters....

When Philip Drem, the most feared and hated IRS auditor, is murdered, junk food junkie Jill Smith finds a long list of suspects....

This is a wry, indecently entertaining mystery involving politics, murder - and nudity. Where else but in Berkeley, California would naked protesters, competing health clubs, and ex-60s radicals add up to murder? Listen now....

When her Zen teacher is attacked in front of her by a silent, hoodie-clad assailant, Darcy Lott feels uncharacteristically helpless. If she cannot identify Garson-roshi’s attacker, she cannot protect him. For whoever it is will surely strike again.