Lisa Gardner – The Laughing Buddha is a short story that features Detective D.D. Warren.
This story was co-written with M.J. Rose and also features her character Malachai Samuels. The Laughing Buddha appears in a collection of short stories called FaceOff that contains stories by many bestselling authors such as Michael Connelly and Lee Child.
The release date of the collection was June 3, 2014, although it was subsequently released as a standalone short story on January 6, 2015.
The Laughing Buddha book description
Sergeant detective D.D. Warren gets called to a murder scene in Boston’s colorful Chinatown neighborhood. An antique dealer specializing in ancient Chinese artifacts — ceramics, jade, and stone carvings — is dead from a single gunshot wound.
Although he appeared to have no known enemies, Mr. John Wen did have a business card clutched in his cold, dead hand. A card bearing the name Malachai Samuels.
A Jungian therapist specializing in past lives and regression therapy, Samuels has also been named a “person of interest” in recent criminal cases involving stolen artifacts. And there is an eight-inch, solid jade Buddha statue missing from Wen’s office.
D.D. Warren will have to pay Malachai Samuels a visit — the question is, is he the killer, or can he simply help her find out who is?
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