Killer Karma: A Father Ananda Mystery

The Father Ananda Mysteries #3

by Nick Wilgus

For the past seven months, every full moon night has brought eerie sightings of ghostly heads bobbing on the surface of the sea. An excited throng of people are gathering each month to witness the grisly spectacle at Wat Phloi, a tiny monastery on the coast of Chanthaburi province in Central Thailand. Father Ananda, an urban monk and former police officer, is summoned from his Bangkok temple to investigate. His search for an explanation is complicated and severely threatened by the escalating polarization within the community around the destruction of the mangroves by fishing trawlers. Are the ghostly heads a divine warning or a desperate plea for help by environmentalists trying to stop the destruction of their traditional fishing grounds? As always, Jak, the former temple boy, now a novice, accompanies Father Ananda on his intrepid investigations in this third episode of the Father Ananda mystery series.

Genres: Mystery

274 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2008

About the author

I sold my first short story to The Horror Show Magazine at the age of seventeen and I've been writing ever since. An award-winning movie was based on my first novel, MINDFULNESS AND MURDER, and I was also nominated for a Lambda Award.

A former newspaper editor and author of more than a dozen novels and two screenplays, I currently live in Tupelo, Mississippi right down the street from the house where Elvis grew up..

Reviews

[Robin Wicker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Buddhist Monk Mystery

I didn't know what to expect when I started reading about Father Amanda but found myself enjoying the book more each page. Intriguing ghostly visions in the Sea, murder and trawlers destroying the waters. I am glad the life of the monks in the temple wove through the story. I do recommend reading this book or other s in the series.