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1) A single eye
Author
Series
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
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. This monastery has its own secrets. A student has disappeared and is feared dead. The leader of the monastery, Leo, Garson-roshi, is soon to leave under mysterious circumstances, and Darcy fears that...
2) Cop out
Author
Series
Jill Smith mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
When a PI vanishes and leaves a body in his office, it's up to Jill Smith to pick up the pieces Jill knows something's wrong with Herman Ott as soon as she sees him on the patio at the Claremont Hotel. A perpetually broke ex-hippie private investigator, Ott is known around town for owning a wardrobe of nothing but yellow second-hand clothes. Yet today he wears all black, and after asking Jill to meet him at Berkeley's most elegant hotel, he clams...
Author
Series
Kiernan O'Shaughnessy volume 03
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
When a young gymnast dies performing a world-famous stunt, Kiernan suspects foul play As a young girl in Baltimore, Kiernan O'Shaughnessy lived for gymnastics, where strict discipline and endless practice kept her centered even as her life fell apart. Her idol was stuntman Greg Gaige. Famous for pulling off the moves no one else could, and for scorning safety equipment, Gaige was the one man O'Shaughnessy truly admired. Ten years after Gaige's...
Author
Series
Jill Smith mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
When an IRS agent is poisoned, Jill Smith faces a murder case in which dozens of California taxpayers are suspects IRS agent Philip Drem is found face down in People's Park, a haven of drug addicts and streetwalkers in the heart of liberal, eccentric Berkeley, California. By the time homicide detective Jill Smith arrives on the scene, Drem's wallet is gone and the tax collector is near death. The method of attack is as uncommonly cruel as the IRS...
6) Time expired
Author
Series
Jill Smith mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
When a rash of pranks on the city's meter maids turns deadly, Jill Smith isn't amused Two witnesses see the man drag the old woman into a canyon while brandishing a rifle. As night falls, detective Jill Smith and the Berkeley police department set up a perimeter. The canyon is a hostage negotiator's nightmare-dark, rough, and full of escape routes-and when she finally opens communication, the gunman doesn't respond. Rather than wait for dawn, Jill...
7) Rogue wave
Author
Series
Kiernan O'Shaughnessy volume 02
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Three years after a hit-and-run, Kiernan searches the sea for the missing suspect As Robin Matucci sails under the Golden Gate Bridge and into the Pacific, the sea is calm and her deckhand, Carlos, is sober. By the next day, the sky is black and Carlos is passed out drunk. The waves crest higher as Robin fights to reach land, until they finally overwhelm her small ship. Fire springs up from the engine room, and the tiny craft goes to the bottom of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Stunt double Darcy Lott searches for a mysterious woman who tried to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge before predicting Darcy's own imminent demise, and tracks her to a dodgy San Francisco neighborhood where she ran an operation for a shady police boss
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