DHARMA: A Rekha Rao Mystery - Softcover

Kumari, Vee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1938394429 ISBN 13: 9781938394423

Verlag: Great Life Press, 2020

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Meet my protagonist, Rekha Rao, a thirty-something Indian American professor of art history. Disillusioned by academia and haunted by the murder of her father, for which she believes police convicted the wrong person, she moves away from her match-making family. She’s focusing on managing her PTSD and healing her heartbroken by an abusive boyfriend.She gets entangled in a second murder, that of her mentor and father figure. An idol of the Hindu Goddess Durga is the murder weapon left on the body. Detective Al Newton asks her to look into the relationship, if any, between the meaning of the statue and the motive for the murder. Rekha is attracted to Al but steers clear of him because of her distaste for cops and fear of a new relationship, sticking to her job. The two constantly clash, starting a love-hate relationship. Meanwhile, her family sets her up to meet a suitor, an Indian attorney, who turns out to be a very likable man.When police arrest one of her students, and accuse her mentor of idol theft, Rekha’s dharma, her sense of duty, rears its head, and propels her into looking for the killer on her own. Despite admonitions from Al and bodily harm caused by an intruder who broke into her home, Rekha finds the killer, and in the process, emerges from the cocoon of a protected upbringing, to taste the prospect of a romance, and discover her true identity.

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Vee Kumari grew up in the south of India. A lover of books, her favorite authors were Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. Upon coming to the US, Vee earned a doctorate in Anatomy and became a faculty member at the UC Davis Medical Center, where she worked for over 35 years and later at the Keck School of Medicine for five years.. She published many scientific papers and won several teaching awards. When she retired in 2012, she took classes from The Gotham Writers' Workshop and UCLA Writers Program, and had the privilege to have authors Lynn Hightower and Caroline Leavitt as her mentors. Dharma, A Rekha Rao Mystery is her debut fiction that incorporates her observations on the lives of Indian immigrants and Indian American in the US. Vee lives in Burbank near her daughters and their families. She is also an actor who has appeared in TV shows, including Criminal Minds and Glow, and produced and was the lead in a short film, Halwa, which garnered first prize in HBO's 2019 APAV contest. She is at work on her next novel about an Indian immigrant family whose American dream shatters when one of their twin daughters goes missing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Great Life Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1938394429
• ISBN 13: 9781938394423
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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