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No Footprints

A Darcy Lott Mystery

by Susan Dunlap
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A mystery set in San Francisco from an Anthony Award–winning author who “knows how to create memorable characters [and] build suspense” (Chicago Tribune).

Darcy Lott is a student of Zen Buddhism—as well as a stunt double in the film industry. One day, while scouting a location site on the Golden Gate Bridge, she sees a woman about to jump. The woman fights, but Darcy manages to pull her back. Before disappearing, the woman tells Darcy that by Thanksgiving she’ll be dead. Darcy has four days to find her and keep her from killing herself, but she has no idea who she is.

Tracking her to a dodgy San Francisco neighborhood, Darcy uncovers whatever clues she can. The woman ran a copy shop operating as a front for the shady police boss of the neighborhood; lived in a cheap apartment above a bagpipe player; and spent very little money—except on an expensive racing bike the week before.

Meanwhile, there are problems back on the set, as one of the producers drives the stunt car off the Berkeley pier. Darcy is being pulled in many directions by a case that will take her everywhere from Nob Hill and a swank charity reception to a place more terrifying than the cold Pacific . . .

“Susan Dunlap is one of the best.” —The San Diego Union Tribune

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    August 1, 2012

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      • ISBN: 9781619020948

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      • ISBN: 9781619020948
      • File size: 715 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      August 1, 2012
      San Francisco stuntwoman Darcy Lott (Power Slide, 2010, etc.) learns the burden of responsibility that comes from saving someone's life. On her way to meet her brother, Mike, back home after 20 years away, Darcy spots a jumper on the walkway of the Golden Gate Bridge. Athletic Darcy wrestles the young woman from the railing only to see her disappear into the fog. To help find the jumper before she can try again, Darcy enlists Mike and her police officer brother, John. But it isn't until she hooks up with shady Declan Serrano, who keeps peace in the Mission District by methods that don't follow San Francisco PD protocol, that she's able to track down Tessa Jurovik. Tessa works at a high-end copy shop by day and sleeps in a building owned by a bagpiper whose practice keeps his tenants awake all night. Is it those midnight bagpipe sessions that prompt Tessa to swipe a credit card from socialite Varine Adame and hole up in the Presidential Suite of the swanky Mark Hopkins? Or is it the mysterious influx of cash that also allows the former bike messenger to purchase a pricey new ride? Whatever the reason, Darcy ignores her Zen master's admonition to live in the moment and trains her sights on the future that she's afraid Tessa won't live to see. As her plot thrusts forward, Dunlap's terse style battles her complex storyline, with a result more ZipCar than Zen.

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