Susan Dunlap

After a terrifying stunt gone wrong leaves her plummeting into the tops of forest trees, a shaken Darcy Lott is dispatched by her Zen master to a remote monastery in California's redwood forest to face her worst fear—but also to deliver a message....

San Francisco stunt double Darcy Lott specializes in creating the illusion of serious danger. But when her lawyer brother calls and asks her to wine and dine a mysterious client, the danger is no illusion.

Set among the wistful Victorians of San Francisco, the second installment of the Darcy Lott series finds stuntwoman Darcy once again plagued by murder....

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....

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

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....

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

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.....

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....

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

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

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

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

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....

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....

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....