From Newsgroup: rec.arts.mystery
Born in Pittsburgh, she became a textile artist and now lives in NYC.
Not to be confused with the Texas Christian writer - I think.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Susan+Dodson%22+books&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiSl83F0qnuAhXFBt8KHYQhAlYQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=%22Susan+Dodson%22+books&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQA1DBlwJYoKoCYIKtAmgAcAB4AIABUIgBngGSAQEymAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=mq0HYJJixY38BoTDiLAF&bih=649&biw=1366&rlz=1CAJMBU_enUS935
(a few book covers)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/254200651982?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=254200651982&targetid=1068715320854&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9002004&poi=&campaignid=11613545184&mkgroupid=114145866638&rlsatarget=pla-1068715320854&abcId=9300455&merchantid=114998401&gclid=CjwKCAiAo5qABhBdEiwAOtGmbukLeoGryQzgLy2XPJ_10JdB1ekysG_RxwO77gmktSMIc6lQwmrabRoCpe8QAvD_BwE
(rare cover of The Creep, plus long description)
Two Kirkus reviews:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/susan-dodson-2/have-you-seen-this-girl/
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/susan-dodson/the-creep-2/
WORKS:
The Creep (1979)
"After her babysitting charge, ten-year-old Annie, is attacked by a child molester, Sabrina Russell decides, in spite of her shyness, to act as a police decoy to lure the man who has been accosting children in the streets of Pittsburgh."
Have You Seen This Girl? (1982)
"A sixteen-year-old boy arrives in New York City looking for his girlfriend who has fled Michigan, only to find the sordid underground world of the runaway."
Shadows Across the Sand (1983)
"Billie Lowe sets out to solve a mystery with two of her friends, when something seems amiss at her Aunt Charlotte's "home for retired show folk" in Hibiscus, Florida." "...Billie embroils herself in the mystery of who is terrorizing the old people who live there and for what purpose."
The Eye of the Storm (1987)
"Tessa, a teen volunteer at the local hospital, stumbles across a mystery amid confusion caused by a hurricane--a patient disappears--and she is determined to find out the truth."
Lenona.
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