High Fall

by Susan Dunlap

Book Overview

Susan Dunlap, called the best of the new crop of mystery writers by the San Diego Union, delivers a suspenseful, new, hard-edged mystery in which a stuntwoman's fall, captured on film, means murder offscreen.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385310242
• ISBN13: 9780385310246
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Movie stunts and murder

Dunlap's forensic pathologist-turned private eye, Kiernan O'Shaughnessy, is a fiesty loner with a tender streak. In this second appearance her nostalgic trip to the San Diego bluffs to watch a young woman perform a movie stunt "gag" made famous by Kiernan's childhood idol, gymnast Greg Gaige, ends in disaster - the ambitious stunt woman's death. Kiernan, puzzled by a few details, refuses to believe it's an accident. Her investigation takes her into the ruthless and precarious business of movie-making and the peculiar world of stunt people. As she digs into the secrets of a has-been director dogged by "bad luck" which all began with Gaige's grisly death by fire on the set, Kiernan finds herself confronting the demons of her own past as well. A well-written page turner with snappy dialogue and an appealing heroine.