When the proprietor of a local waterfront bar is murdered, meter reader Vejay Haskell, who had called in sick that day, learns that she is the chief suspect, and must discover the truth about the killing. Reissue....
A call from an ex-husband is never welcome.  For Berkeley cop Jill Smith it wins a Nobel Prize for chutzpah.  Her ex wants a favor.  His "friend" and co-worker, Anne Spaulding, is missing.  Anne's ransacked apartment--complete with blood-spra...
Investigating her suspicion that a beautiful woman's murder is linked to a dealer who supplies drugs for the raucous annual festivities of the Bohemian Club, meter reader Vejay Haskell uncovers a wealth of deadly secrets. Reissue....
DEATH BY CADILLAC Telegraph Avenue ain't what it used to be now that gentrification has gotten under 'way. But Jill Smith, the junk-food-loving, smart and savvy Berkeley cop, hasn't changed. Chugging along in her vintage VW to fetch a pint of choc...
FIRST PRIZE: MURDER It was an honor. Or so the residents of Henderson, California claimed. To be a judge for the annual Slugfest, a celebration of the lowly California slug, meant witnessing the slug weigh-ins and slug races and then having the ho...
BLOOD-RED BAY AREA BLUES Smart, savvy detective Jill Smith's beat is Berkeley, where the 1960s head shops have given way to computer stores and pizza chains. But murder creates a time warp when it takes her to Rainbow Village, a half-acre on the S...
DEATH DU JOUR Berkeley, California, has been transformed from hippie to yuppie, but it's still home to homicide detective Jill Smith. And even in the Bay Area, some elements of the human condition remain eternal ... like murder. Now the owner of a...
THE CASE OF THE PASSIONATE PRIEST Kiernan O'Shaughnessy, M.D., former California medical examiner, now detective for hire, is choosy about her cases. But finding out if the hanging of a handsome young priest in a Phoenix, Arizona, church is sui...
DEATH BY PATCHOULI OIL The complaint of a nude, sunbathing dentist who claimed he was attacked by a eucalyptus tree had ruined sassy Berkeley cop Jill Smith's plans for a lazy summer after-noon, She would have chalked up the "assault" to another i...
SEA OF SUSPICION From her sunny La Jolla beach house replete with a fabulously handsome gourmet chef, feisty private detective Kiernan O'Shaughnessy embarks on one of her strangest cases to date. This one takes her up the Coast to Big Sur fogs . ....
SCHEDULE M, FOR MURDER Until someone put a poisoned needle in his bicycle seat, Phil Drem was the meanest, most nit-picking IRS agent in Berkeley, California. But when Detective Jill Smith began searching Berkeley's backwaters for the tax man's...
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. But when the prankster took  detective Jill Smith and her colleagues o...
Berkeley cop Jill Smith is back in another adventure that could only occur in this brazen, eccentric town. Gym owner and former Olympic diver Bryn Wiley is in a turf war with sixties radical Sam Johnson, who owns a competing gym. When Bryn is shot, S...
Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...
MURDER IN THE BLOOD Kiernan O'Shaughnessy's cook is an ex -- football player--big, brawny, and deft with a glazed quail. But Tchernak has always longed to be a detective. So when Kiernan, a former medical examiner, is called to the Nevada desert t...
The Celestial Buffet is the first collection of short mystery stories by the Anthony-Award winning author of the Jill Smith and Kiernan O'Shaughnessy detective tales. Among the 18 stories are five cases for cop Jill Smith and one for private-eye O'Sh...
A gripping new novel from the author of the Jill Smith mystery series
A secret in Liza Silvestri's past means she can't look for help from the police when her husband Jay is shot dead in their private hideaway in Los Angeles. But it turns out Jay ...
HIGH-FLYING STUNTWOMAN DARCY LOTT'S only fear is being alone in the woods. After a terrifying stunt-gone-wrong leaves her plummeting through a forest canopy, a shaken Darcy is dispatched by her Zen master to a remote monastery in California's redwood...
In Buddhist lore, hungry ghosts have huge bellies and needle-thin necks and -- because they cannot swallow the food they crave -- their hunger is insatiable. The Barbary Coast, San Francisco’s infamous red-light district in the days when sailors ...
San Francisco stuntwoman Darcy Lott is an expert at creating the illusion of danger, living in a tightly controlled universe in which all but the most disastrous mistakes can be reset and reshot. But when her lawyer brother Gary leans on her to enter...
It’s the twentieth anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, and stunt double Darcy Lott is on location at the Port of Oakland, positioned for a power slide -- a dangerous trick in which she falls off a bike and skids under an eighteen-wheeler. L...
What is death? Darcy Lott asks her Zen teacher, Garson-roshi.
While scouting a location site on the Golden Gate Bridge, stunt double Darcy Lott sees a woman about to jump. The woman fights, but Darcy manages to pull her back. Before disappearing, ...
Three Sharon Dunlap mysteries in one collectionNo SafetyJeremy has dedicated his life to being an advocate for peace. So, when he finds a mislaid gun, he knows he has to turn it into the police. Jeremy would never consider betraying his non-violent i...
Two riveting short stories from award-winning author Susan DunlapOtt on a LimbOn Christmas Eve, homicide detective Jill Smith chooses to decline the Christmas party invitations and instead respond to an unusual call from The Herman Ott Detective Agen...
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....
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. But her joy at bringing him home ...