The Weeping Buddha

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National Book Award nominee Heather Dune Macadam presents her first novel - as mysterious and alluring as a Buddhist Koan. 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. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek and The Advocate and she is the author of Rena's Promise, a non-fiction memoir about Auschwitz which was nominated for the National Book Award.

"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"