{"product_id":"2940045693707","title":"Felonious Monk","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeneath Buddhist prayer flags, a reporter is found dead at dawn on a Vermont ashram. Summoned by an old friend who runs a silent retreat, astrologer Axel Crowe arrives to assess the situation. Within hours, the police arrest his friend for murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBelieving him innocent, Crowe suspects instead a mysterious devotee who may be ex-CIA, and the beautiful Thai woman who accompanied him to the retreat. But when Crowe follows them to New York, the woman disappears and the man threatens to make Crowe disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeeking background on the pair, Crowe calls in a favor from an NYPD detective, who asks for help in return. A man dubbed the Riverside Rapist has murdered eight Asian women in 12 years. Intrigued by the astrological pattern of a serial killer, Crowe agrees to take a look.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoincidence or not, the cold case file overlaps some of the stories the murdered reporter was working on – sex trafficking, heroin smuggling and the theft of religious antiquities – all from Southeast Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Crowe goes to Thailand looking for answers, he finds more than he anticipated – a convoluted history of conspiracy, crime and karma – that very nearly gets him killed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack in New York, Crowe leans on doors that now open to further revelations. Doubted by the police, he follows a trail of evidence on his own to a final confrontation with the perpetrators, where it all comes together to make perfect, horrible, sense.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alan Annand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175654244592,"sku":"2940045693707","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045693707_p0.jpg?v=1763979755","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045693707","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}