I am in the middle of rewrites of my next manuscript, a murder mystery with an Armenian detective who joins up with a Vietnamese Buddhist monk to catch the killer. I'm not sure quite how this idea came about, other than that my husband and I did a three-day retreat at the Zen Forest in Actinolite, Ontario years ago, and I felt like revisiting the spot in my writing.
It was such a beautiful place, a peaceful lake, trees all around, a fountain and bridges and pagodas and little statues to stumble across, tucked away in the forest. Wonderful vegetarian meals. Meditating with the sun on my shoulders, the quiet splash of water in the background. The perfect spot for a murder.
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