cover image The Weeping Buddha

The Weeping Buddha

Heather Dune Macadam. Consortium, $16.96 (360pp) ISBN 978-1-888451-39-9

Zen koans lie at the heart of Heather Dune Macadam's literary first mystery, The Weeping Buddha, in which two Long Island cops have the misfortune to know both of the murder victims at a Suffolk County crime scene. Macadam's nonfiction book, Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters at Auschwitz, was nominated for a National Book Award.