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Overview: With a will to pull through and a strive for success, Susan never gave up on her attempts to write a mystery novel that will be good enough for publishing. After writing and scratching, and writing again for a total of five years, she produced five different manuscripts. These weren’t good enough for her and she never published any of them.
Susan took one more attempt at it, and wrote a sixth manuscript. This time, she was able to create a mystery novel that stood out from all of the others she wrote – this then later turned into her very first published book called “Karma”.
Karma formed the Jill Smith series, and this is also how Susan’s most successful and most beloved character was born. She officially published the book in 1981 and, after being such a great hit, she went on to publish a sequel in 1984, titled “As a Favor”. Since then, she has published a total of ten more books in the series, making this her most successful work to date.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Susan stated that, even though it’s not vital that you read the Jill Smith series in order, it will offer you a better experience and will help you understand who and what Jill Smith really is better.
1. Karma
A thirty-something junk-food maven and brash, brainy Berkeley cop, Jill Smith doesn’t spend much time contemplating her navel. But she accepted an invitation to see the new guru in town. She was as shocked as the rest of the packed house when the young man’s spirit rose to heaven before their very eyes…with a little earthly aid from the dagger buried deep in his swirling red robes.
2. As a Favor
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-sprayed walls–gives Jill the chilling feeling that her ex may be up to his arrogant neck in murder. Now Jill’s out with the street people of Berkeley and the crazies of People’s Park to uncover the fate of a welfare worker. But her best suspect is her ex: the former "significant other" who still pushes her buttons–the ones that can set her temperature on boil, break her heart, or ruin her life.
3. Not Exactly a Brahmin
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.
4. Too Close to the Edge
Smart, savvy detective Jill Smith’s beat is Berkeley, where the 1960’s 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 Bay set aside for "bus people" and psychedelic-painted campers.
5. A Dinner to Die For
Berkely, California has been transformed from hippie to yuppie, but it’s still home to homocide detective Jill Smith. And even in the Bay Area, some elements of the human condition remain eternal… like murder. Now the owner of a local gourmet eatery has completed his karma: poisoned at his own fabulous Paradise Restaurant. A sixties holdover who has made food his life, Mitchell Biekma also made it a catalyst for deadly rivalries and rage. A street crazy, a disgruntled dishwasher, and a neighborhood activist all would have gladly seen him in hell. Paradise serves food of the gods, but it leaves Jill with the bitter taster of broken dreams and face-to-face with her mortality.
6. Diamond in the Buff
After a bizarre attack, a petty feud between neighbors turns serious
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. In the Berkeley hills , there are no worse neighbors than Diamond and Sandoval. What began as a tiff about garbage cans and street parking has exploded into full-blown war, drawing in the city, the press, and now—to the irritation of detective Jill Smith—the police department. Struck by a falling eucalyptus branch while sunning on his deck, Dr. Diamond accuses his neighbor of assault with a deadly tree. As a heat wave causes tempers to flare even higher, Jill does her best to referee the back-and-forth. But when their feud ends in death, she realizes that the community might only be safe with the neighbors behind bars.
7. Death and Taxes
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 killer, she found a different picture of Drem: a caring Drem, whose once-beautiful wife was "allergic to the world" and whose friends and enemies, old hippies and would-be entrepreneurs, enjoyed a ghoulish pastime called The Death Game. Did the Death Game KO Drem? Was someone’s schedule a motive for murder? And what about a CPA who drove a red Lotus ruthlessly and guaranteed his clients they’d never be audited?
Only one thing is for sure–somewhere in Berkeley’s colorful backwaters, a killer is still on the loose. And for a detective who loves her city, doubts her lover, and has a knack for solving the toughest of crimes, finding the truth is about as inevitable as…Death And Taxes.
8. Time Expired
While investigating what turns out to be a phony hostage situation, Smith interviews Madelaine Riordan, a now terminally ill local lawyer who once struck fear into the hearts of Berkeley police officers. And when Smith returns the next night to question Riordan again, Smith finds her dead.
9. Sudden Exposure
Where else but in Berkeley, California, could naked protesters, competing health clubs, and ex-sixties radicals add up to murder? And who else would find herself smack in the middle of this crisis than back-on-the-beat Detective Jill Smith, the beloved protagonist of seven previous Susan Dunlap mysteries?
During a protest of the recent city ordinance against nudity, Jill is called in to put a stop to a slew of naked protesters. While she’s at it, she runs into Bryn Wiley, founder of a local gym, who complains of vandalism, and suspects that the culprit is Sam Johnson, a hostile ex-sixties radical who owns a competing health club. Jill starts to investigate, but is halted by a much larger crime: Bryn is shot at close range, and a lot of questions need to be answered. Who shot Bryn and why? What happened to all the idealists who are dropping their values and selling out? And how is the irrepressible Jill Smith going to figure it all out?
10. Cop Out
Any mystery that begins in the parking lot of the Claremont Hotel, that gorgeous old Victorian woodpile on the edge of the radical community of Berkeley, California, already has something special going for it. And Susan Dunlap’s latest book about Berkeley cop Jill Smith doesn’t disappoint: it’s a rich and thoughtful mixture of the familiar (Jill’s edgy nostalgia for the Berkeley of the ’60s, her scratchy relationship with her fellow officers, her dogged determination to solve cases on which everyone else has given up) and the original–in this case, the tangled relationships between politics, business, and medicine. Fans of Marcia Muller and the late Ross Macdonald who have yet to discover Dunlap could well plunge in with this fine example of her work.
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