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    The Eyes of Buddha
    The Eyes of Buddha
    The Eyes of Buddha
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Eyes of Buddha

    Written by John Ball

    Narrated by Dion Graham

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    A partially decomposed body of a young woman is discovered in a park in Pasadena, California. The woman was strangled but not sexually assaulted. The police suspect she might be a missing heiress who disappeared over a year ago, but dental records prove them wrong. But who is she? And is there a link between the heiress and this corpse? The celebrated black detective Virgil Tibbs re-shapes the known facts regarding these two women and discovers astonishing connections. His quest leads him around the world to Katmandu where, beneath the searing "eyes of Buddha" at the famed Monkey Temple, he learns the truth in a striking denouement.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 2015
    ISBN9781501251610
    The Eyes of Buddha
    Author

    John Ball

    John Ball was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel In the Heat of the Night, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an Oscar-winning film of the same name.

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    • 3/5
      This is the fifth in the Virgil Tibbs series which begins with [In the Heat of the Night] In the books, as opposed to the movie and TV versions, Tibbs is a detective in Los Angeles. He is well respected, his deductive reasoning powers are Holmesian, and he gets assigned to the trickiest cases. He has a reputation, because his story has been told on the big screen by this time the events of this book take place, and people know his name. (One woman he introduced himself to gave him a "Yeah, right! You're Virgil Tibbs. And I'm Dionne Warwick" sort of response, until he showed her his ID.) His partners, in work and in life, are Japanese Americans, and he has an affinity for Far Eastern things. His knows great music, of many genres, and not just the standards, either. I enjoyed his company and his thought processes as he worked to sort out two cases--the death of a young woman whose decomposing body is found in a remote area of a local park, and the disappearance of one of the "Rose Princesses" who walked out of an official luncheon gathering and has not been seen or heard from for a year. Could they be the same person? My only quibble with Ball's style is that he can't seem to let any character speak without first telling us what's going through the person's mind.