Book description
Meet Helen Thorpe. She’s smart, preternaturally calm, deeply insightful and a freshly trained butler. On the day she is supposed to start her career as an unusually equanimous domestic professional serving one of the wealthiest families in the world, she is called back to a spiritual retreat where she used…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Mindful of Murder as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I didn’t know I needed a Buddhist nun butler murder investigator character in my life, but I really really did, it turns out.
Somehow, this book keeps the tension and interest up while also casting a calming spell as the head butler runs a west-coast spiritual/yoga retreat and tries to puzzle out who the murderer is. I had a wonderful time reading this—I chuckled, had my heart warmed, and was thoroughly entertained.
From Lisa's list on unusual investigators.
I’ve studied mindfulness over the years, with varying degrees of success, so I loved spending time with Helen Thorpe, ex-Buddhist nun-turned-butler-turned amateur sleuth.
In this book, Helen is tasked with deciding which of her former employer’s distant relatives deserves to assume control of her retreat centre–a particular challenge since it appears that one of them may have murdered her.
From Kate's list on amateur detective novels that keep you laughing while they keep you guessing.
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