The Weeping Buddha: A Mystery - Softcover

Macadam, Heather Dune

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888451394 ISBN 13: 9781888451399

Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S., 2002

Synopsis

New Year's Eve: Long Island detectives Devon Halsey and Lochwood Brennen, secret lovers, are thrust into mayhem by the grisly murder of Devon's best friend. What has haunted Devon for years begins to take shape, and as she dissects the file, she learns that the carvings in the victims' bodies are actually Koans--unanswerable questions that must be meditated upon in order to reach enlightenment.

Heather Dune Macadam is a professor at Suffolk County Community College and a former dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company. She is the author of Rena's Promise, a nonfiction memoir about Auschwitz, which was nominated for a National Book Award. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek and the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

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Review:

"Heather Dune Macadam should be included in that rare category of literary mystery masters such as Lawrence Block, Craig Holden, and Giles Blunt, whose lyrical prose and beautifully developed characters have a great deal to say about the troubled world we live in and its legacy of violence."

--Kaylie Jones, author of "Celeste Ascending" and "A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries"

Synopsis:

The past nags on Devon Halsey as she walks through the crime scene. The physical and circumstantial evidence points to the murderer being Beka Imamura, Devon Halsey's best friend. The victim, Beka's own husband, renowned artist Gabriel Montebello. What appears to be a relationship gone sour and ended in a murder/ suicide conflicts with Devon's personal knowledge of her friend. At the Northwest Woods Zendo, where Beka and Devon occasioned over the years, a monk has found Beka's hair on the altar of Buddha. Devon works the scene, but the evidence all points to Beka offering her hair as a sign of grief - what was she grieving, though? What has haunted Devon for years begins to take shape in the present day. Dissecting the case file, she learns that a carving in the victim is actually a Koan - an unanswerable question that must be mediated upon in order to reach enlightenment. In the true nature of the Koan, Devon and Lochwood must find the answers in order to solve the crime, while also looking at the nature of betrayal and its many layers of disguise.

About this edition

• Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1888451394
• ISBN 13: 9781888451399
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350