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Too Close to the Edge
Too Close to the Edge
Too Close to the Edge
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Too Close to the Edge

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An activist’s murder forces Jill to infiltrate Berkeley’s psychedelic underworld
A town as diverse as Berkeley, California, is never without controversy. This year the uproar is over the Rainbow Village, a hippie-occupied bayside lot that has degenerated into a drug-infested cesspool. As the city tries to eject the squatters, two Grateful Dead fans are murdered and a developer is assaulted. But for homicide detective Jill Smith, the conflict at the Village is only a nuisance until the violence gets personal. While staking out a coffee shop, Jill sees Liz Goldenstern, a handicapped activist who has long been a thorn in the side of local business. Her wheelchair has broken down, and Jill offers to push her home. The next morning, Liz is found savagely murdered at the Village. To find her killer, Jill will have to remember that sometimes hippies are far from pacifists.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Dunlap including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 8, 2012
ISBN9781453250488
Too Close to the Edge
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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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    Written in 1989 this San Francisco police mystery involves Jill Smith, the only female detective on the force. Berkeley's 'hippie' culture has given way to computer stores and pizza chains. When a wheelchair-bound political activist, who is also an acquaintance of Jill's is murdered, she finds herself mired in political back lash as well as disapproval from her boss(male). The first of an older series that is really good.

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