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Not Exactly a Brahmin
Not Exactly a Brahmin
Not Exactly a Brahmin
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Not Exactly a Brahmin

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Newly promoted detective Jill Smith confronts a traffic circle homicide
After six months of perfect weather, the people of Berkeley, California, have forgotten how to drive during a thunderstorm. Newly christened homicide detective Jill Smith is on her way home to a chocolate ice cream dinner when she gets caught in a traffic jam at the city’s only roundabout. At the front of the line, she sees the trouble: a flipped-over Cadillac and one dead driver. The man behind the wheel was one of the city’s leading citizens, a philanthropist in a town that puts charity first. He was coming down Berkeley’s steepest hill when his brakes failed, flipping his car and ending his charity work forever. Two things trouble Jill. First, the car’s brakes had been inspected that afternoon. Second, the driver was nearly blind, and unfit to ever take the wheel. Finding the killer will lead her from Berkeley’s upper echelon all the way into the depths of the community’s underbelly.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Dunlap including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 8, 2012
ISBN9781453250471
Not Exactly a Brahmin
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Susan Dunlap

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.

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    A lite, enjoyable mystery. The story is a bit choppy, but the mystery itself is pretty good.
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    Jill Smith, San Francisco Police Department, becomes involved in a murder when she ventures out to get one of her four basic food groups, chocolate chocolate shower ice cream. She stops to help another female officer handle what, at first glance is a tragic automobile accident. Upon closer investigation, it is no accident. Jill must follow a convoluted path to the truth.

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