I read ‘A Single Eye’ on a recommendation from an old friend. Well, she recommended the author in general. So I put it on hold at the library. After I picked it up I sent her a message letting her know. She then said that this particular series was ok, but she preferred the earlier books. I’ve since put one of those on hold also, but read this one anyway.
From Publishers Weekly: Anthony-winner Dunlap, author of the Jill Smith mysteries (Sudden Exposure, etc.) and Kiernan O’Shaughnessy series (A Pious Deception, etc.), introduces another brilliant but vulnerable heroine, Darcy Lott, a stuntwoman with a secret. After a stunt goes awry and a young protégé is seriously injured, Darcy, a Buddhist, retreats to Redwood Canyon Monastery, deep in California redwood country, where she delivers a message from her Manhattan roshi, or spiritual teacher, to the camp’s leader, the enigmatic Leo Garson–roshi. Rather than enlightenment, Darcy finds a Zen camp awash in greed, lies and ultimately murder as she investigates Leo’s sudden illness and the disappearance of a young Zen student six years earlier. Dunlap fans are sure to welcome this new addition to her oeuvre, while remaining hopeful they may yet see more of Smith and O’Shaughnessy. (Nov.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
I had no idea what it was about when I started reading and found the Buddhist stunt woman a somewhat odd protagonist. But I liked her. I didn’t tear through it like some other books, but I didn’t postpone reading it either. There is a second in the series and if I ever catch up on all my other reading I will read the second one. The author is very good. I love her storytelling and ease with words. I’m anxious to read from another of her series to see if a change in main character gives me a better read.
As for my library books this week:
Guilty pleasures Hamilton, Laurell K
The girl who played with fire Larsson, Stieg
The lost city of Z : a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon Grann, David
Hollywood Station : a novel Wambaugh, Joseph
Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet : a novel Ford, Jamie
The last Dickens : a novel Pearl, Matthew
Karma Dunlap, Susan
Gregor the Overlander Collins, Suzanne
I dreamed I married Perry Mason Kandel, Susan
Hardball Paretsky, Sara
Grave secret Harris, Charlaine.
