Lorelei King serves as a skillful guide through the twists and turns of plot lines that eventually wrap around one another. King works hard to create suspense as private eye Kiernan O'Shaughnessy follows the path of what she fears could be the beginning of an epidemic of a deadly and contagious disease. She conveys well the bravado of the naive and inept, but generally lucky, Tchernak, O'Shaughnessy's housekeeper, who decides it can't be that hard to be a detective. King plays him as a lovable bull in a china shop, who brings to investigation the same style that he applied to playing professional football. J.E.M. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine--
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Review
Praise for Susan Dunlap's previous novels:
Cop Out"A fun and fast read."
--San Francisco Examiner"Deft and engrossing. . . a series marked by its vividly depicted setting and admirably controlled plots."
--Publishers WeeklyHigh Fall"Uncanny authenticity."
--The New York Times Book Review"A deftly worked tale of murder."
--The Washington Post Book WorldDeath and Taxes"Entertaining. . . clever. . . Dunlap takes an affectionate view of the iconoclastic artists, rebels, and intellectual vagabonds who constitute Berkeley's counterculture."
--The New York Times"A poignant, suspenseful puzzler."
--Publishers WeeklyFrom the Hardcover edition.
