THE DEVIL IN DUNWOODY’S protagonist, Eleanor Woodward Morgan, shoplifting wife of a sexually sadistic, popular cardiac surgeon, is the poster child for one of Henry David Thoreau’s “lives of quiet desperation.” When arrested for the theft of a diamond tennis bracelet, Eleanor’s world intersects with that of Len Brockman, who, though a distinguished psychologist in the field of shoplifting addiction, has long despaired over the death of his fiancé. Fans of Lifetime TV and readers who want to believe that endings can be happy will be drawn into this story.