Karma

(Paperback)

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Hard-nosed beat cop Jill Smith combs Berkeley for a Buddhist guru-killing cultistWith time on her hands after her divorce, Jill lets a friend drag her to hear the districts 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 doesnt care about karma, but she knows when justice is due.

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Susan Dunlap is one of the best of the new crop of mystery writers. The San Diego Union-TribuneAs long as writers like Dunlap continue to play with the form, genre fans need not lament the mysterys demise. San Francisco ChronicleMs. Dunlap takes an affectionate view of the iconoclastic artists, rebels and intellectual vagabonds who constitute Berkeleys counterculture society and makes an honest effort to penetrate their colorful surfaces. The New York Times

Author Bio

Susan Dunlap is a prolific author of mystery novels. Born in New York City, Dunlap majored in English at Bucknell University and earned a masters degree in education from the University of North Carolina. She was a social worker before an Agatha Christie novel inspired her to try her hand at writing mysteries. Six attempts and six 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, former forensic pathologist Kiernan OShaughnessy, and Zen student/stunt double Darcy Lott. In addition to writing, Dunlap has taught yoga, worked as a paralegal, and helped found Sisters in Crime, an organization created to support women in the field of mystery writing. She lives near San Francisco.