Susan Dunlap (edit name/settings)

Susan Dunlap is an award-winning mystery writer. Born in New York City, Dunlap majored in English at Bucknell University and earned a masters degree in education from the University of North Carolina. She was employed as a social worker when an Agatha Christie novel inspired her to try her hand at writing mysteries. Five manuscripts 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 deteective Vejay Haskell, former forensic pathologist Kiernan O'Shaughnessy, and Zen student/stunt double Darcy Lott.

In addition to writing, Dunlap has taught yoga, worked as a paralegal, and heped found Sisters in Crime, an organization created to support women in the field of mystery writing. She lives near San Francisco.