num_pages: 290
description: To live and die in L.A.Zen Moses is either having a bad day or bad karma. Her cat is dead. The IRS wants to talk to her. And she just found her long-lost cousin's body bound to a beer keg at her favorite neighborhood bar. It's enough to drive even a tough private investigator to drink, smoke a good cigar, and find a firm male shoulder to cry on.But cynical, wise-cracking Zen is both a loner and survivor. At thirty-three she's already beat a bout with cancer-- and soon she's being offered big bucks to find a talk-show celebrity's missing father. It seems like an easy job until Zen finds out she's just one step ahead of a hit man. Now Zen's professional and private lives are converging into a world of murder and gunplay...and the sound of one hand clapping may end up being bang bang.
language: English
title: Zen and the Art of Murder
titlecomplete: Zen and the Art of Murder
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 115
series: P.I. Zen Moses
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best First PI Novel
publisher: Minotaur Books