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Hungry Ghosts

A Darcy Lott Mystery

by Susan Dunlap
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In Buddhist lore, hungry ghosts have huge bellies and needle–thin necks and—because they cannot swallow the food they crave—their hunger is insatiable. The Barbary Coast, San Francisco's infamous red–light district in the days when sailors could sit down for a drink and wake up on a ship bound around the Horn, has plenty of hungry ghosts. But it is the living ghosts who threaten stunt double Darcy Lott when she returns to San Francisco to serve as assistant to her Zen teacher, Leo Garson, in his new zendo.



Darcy brings her own ghosts along as well. She is haunted by the disappearance of her beloved brother Mike and her estrangement from her family. From a turret atop a San Francisco Victorian, as she prepares for a thirty–five–foot dive to the sidewalk, she spots Mike on the roof of the zendo. By the time she reaches the roof, he is gone. When someone else she cares about disappears the next day, she fears the past is about to repeat itself. But Lott is unable to convince anyone of the danger, even her oldest brother, a police detective. Until a brutal murder shocks them all.

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  • Release date

    September 14, 2013

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781619022713

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781619022713
      • File size: 410 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 26, 2008
      In Anthony-winner Dunlap's intriguing second mystery to feature Buddhist stuntwoman Darcy Lott (after 2007's A Single Eye
      ), Darcy returns to her native San Francisco, where she attends the opening ceremony of a new Buddhist zendo center. To her surprise, the center's new landlord is a dead ringer for her missing brother, Mike, and he's on the arm of Tia Dru, who used to know Mike. When Tia disappears the next day, after intimating she had new information about Mike, Darcy races around the city, but finds Tia murdered in the zendo, with circumstantial evidence pointing at the zen master. With the aid of a suspiciously available cab driver, Darcy investigates the guests who had toured the old pirate tunnels beneath the zendo the previous evening, finding that nothing is as it first appears. By the end, Darcy has cleared her teacher, but awaits further enlightenment about her beloved missing brother.

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  • English

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