Sudden Exposure (Jill Smith Mystery) - Hardcover

Dunlap, Susan

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9780385310253: Sudden Exposure (Jill Smith Mystery)

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ISBN 10: 0385310250 ISBN 13: 9780385310253

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1996

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Called in to stop a group of naked protesters who are fighting a city ordinance against nudity, detective Jill Smith investigates a vandalism complaint by gym owner Bryn Wiley, who is later shot to death. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

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Called in to stop a group of naked protesters who are fighting a city ordinan against nudity, detective Jill Smith investigates a vandalism complaint by g owner Bryn Wiley, who is later shot to death.

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ling author Susan Dunlap comes this wry, indecently entertaining mystery involving politics, murder--and nudity.

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 t

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