Allison W. (sealady) reviewed Zen and the Art of Murder (Zen Moses, Bk 1) on + 657 more book reviews
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First in series with Zen Moses, a cancer survivor and loner, but feisty charmer. Offered big bucks to find celebrity's dad, murder of course happens. Good series.
Helpful Score: 1
PRETTY GOOD BOOK. MYSTERY IN A FAMILY IS ALWAYS INTERESTING.
Move over Sue Grafton and Marcia Muller--here comes Elizabeth Cosin with a heroine who's a worthy rival to Kinsey Millhone and Sharon McCone. Zen Moses is a hip, fresh, cigar-smoking PI who's so tough she's beat lung cancer, but she's still vulnerable enough to admit her attraction to Jonathan Brooks, a Santa Monica homicide cop she meets in this first of what will thankfully be a series of mysteries. When Zen (short for Zenaria) finds a dead man wrapped around a beer keg in the walk-in cooler at Father's Office, her favorite L.A. watering hole, she's only a little surprised. When she turns the body over for a closer look, however, she discovers that the victim is her cousin Danny--a man who supposedly died in a mass suicide with other cult victims 15 years earlier. It's enough to make a girl forget she's facing an IRS audit. Danny's father, an uncle from whom she's long been estranged, asks her to investigate, and she's quickly off and running.
