Karma

by Susan Dunlap

Overview

Hard-nosed beat cop Jill Smith combs Berkeley for a Buddhist guru-killing cultist  
In Berkeley, California, Telegraph Avenue is the headquarters for the city’s strangest inhabitants. Cultists, drug addicts, and hippie burnouts wander its streets, looking to raise their consciousness or, if that fails, to just get high. And Jill Smith walks with them, a beat cop with her finger on the pulse of one of the most unique neighborhoods in America.
 
With time on her hands after her divorce, Jill lets a friend drag her to hear the district’s hot new guru, a Buddhist holy man from Bhutan. As his disciples clap and cheer , Jill tries to keep from smirking. The guru finally draws her attention, however, when he slumps forward with a knife in his back. She calls for backup and cordons off the temple. Jill doesn’t care about karma, but she knows when justice is due.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781453253946
Publisher:	Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Publication date:	05/08/2012
Series:	The Jill Smith Mysteries , #1
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Susan Dunlap (b. 1943) is a prolific author of mystery novels. Born in the suburbs of New York, Dunlap majored in English at Bucknell College and earned a masters in teaching from the University of North Carolina. She was a social worker before an Agatha Christie novel inspired her to try her hand writing mysteries. Five attempts and five years later, she published Karma (1981), which began a ten book series about brash Berkeley cop Jill Smith.
  Since then, Dunlap has published more than twenty novels and numerous short stories. Her other ongoing characters include the meter-reading detective Vejay Haskell, medical examiner Kiernan O’Shaugnessy, and Zen student turned detective Darcy Loft. In addition to writing, Dunlap has taught yoga, worked as a paralegal, and helped found the women’s mystery organization Sisters In Crime. She lives in San Francisco.

Editorial Reviews

"Susan Dunlap is one of the best of the new crop of mystery writers.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune
 
“As long as writers like Dunlap continue to play with the form, genre fans need not lament the mystery’s demise.” —San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Ms. Dunlap takes an affectionate view of the iconoclastic artists, rebels and intellectual vagabonds who constitute Berkeley’s counterculture society and makes an honest effort to penetrate their colorful surfaces.” —The New York Times

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