Susan Dunlap is the author of nineteen novels and a collection of short stories, and editor of an anthology. She has won Anthony and Macavity Awards and has been president of Sisters in Crime. Her day jobs have ranged from teaching Hatha yoga to working on a death penalty defense team. She and her husband live near San Francisco.
Anthony-winner Dunlap, author of the Jill Smith mysteries (Sudden Exposure, etc.) and Kiernan O'Shaughnessy series (A Pious Deception, etc.), introduces another brilliant but vulnerable heroine, Darcy Lott, a stuntwoman with a secret. After a stunt goes awry and a young prot?g? is seriously injured, Darcy, a Buddhist, retreats to Redwood Canyon Monastery, deep in California redwood country, where she delivers a message from her Manhattan roshi, or spiritual teacher, to the camp's leader, the enigmatic Leo Garson-roshi. Rather than enlightenment, Darcy finds a Zen camp awash in greed, lies and ultimately murder as she investigates Leo's sudden illness and the disappearance of a young Zen student six years earlier. Dunlap fans are sure to welcome this new addition to her oeuvre, while remaining hopeful they may yet see more of Smith and O'Shaughnessy. (Nov.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
After a stunt goes terribly wrong, stuntwoman and Zen student Darcy Lott goes to an isolated Zen monastery in the backwoods of northern California for a two-week sesshin, a time of intense meditation, to confront her phobia of being alone in the woods. Then her teacher, Garson-roshi, is poisoned, and Darcy must protect him while trying to find out what really happened to a student who disappeared six years earlier and was thought to have gone to Japan for further study. Veteran writer Dunlap, creator of several respected mystery series (november 1, 2006 Jill Smith, Kiernan O'Shaughnessy, Vejay Haskell, the Celestial Detective), introduces an original new detective in a beautifully plotted story that features an unusual setting and fully realized characters. This polished triumph launches an intriguing new series. Dunlap lives near San Francisco. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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