Not Exactly a Brahmin (Jill Smith Series #3)

Telegraph Avenue ain't what it used to be now that gentrification has gotten under way. But Jill Smith, the junk food-loving, smart and savvy Berkeley cop, hasn't changed. Chugging along in her vintage VW to fetch a pint of chocolate chocolate shower ice cream, she runs smack into a case of murder.

A local philanthropist's Cadillac has crashed going down the steepest hill in town.

Its lifeless owner lies faceup in the rain, and cuts in the brake lines prove this is no acc…