Garden of hell : a Father Ananda mystery
by Nick Wilgus
This is the only Thailand based crime fiction which I have read. It was okay reading though the writing is a bit dry at places.(maybe because the author was once a journalist). We get to see the seedy side of Buddhist monasteries in Thailand and that really broke my heart! I always naively thought of Buddhists as mild, gentle, good, etc and it was rather sad to discover that bad Buddhist monks & monasteries exist!
An unusual and new thing for me in this book is that the chief 'detective' is a Buddhist monk! He's actually a retired police officer who has now become a monk. I have read books where the main protagonist in the book was a Christina monk but this is the first Buddhist monk-detective.
This was the second book in the Father Ananda series.
Mindfulness and murder is the first book in the series which I am yet to borrow from the library.
Killer Karma is the 3rd book in this series.
An unusual and new thing for me in this book is that the chief 'detective' is a Buddhist monk! He's actually a retired police officer who has now become a monk. I have read books where the main protagonist in the book was a Christina monk but this is the first Buddhist monk-detective.
This was the second book in the Father Ananda series.
Mindfulness and murder is the first book in the series which I am yet to borrow from the library.
Killer Karma is the 3rd book in this series.
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