DownwardFacing Death, Neal Pollack
DownwardFacing Death, Neal Pollack
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Downward-Facing Death

Author: Neal Pollack

Narrator: Fred Stella

Unabridged: 7 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/10/2013

Synopsis

Blessed with uncanny deductive skills and a blasé disregard for authority, Matt Bolster was a rising LAPD homicide detective by the age of thirty-five. He was also overworked, divorced, near-alcoholic, and miserable. Then, to impress a girl, he agreed to try yoga. And with a single savasana, everything changed.Now Bolster has traded his badge and gun for a scraggly beard and the life of an itinerant yoga teacher, dabbling in P.I. work to make rent. He mostly handles missing-persons cases, credit-card fraud—nothing too messy. But that’s before Ajoy Chaterjee, the billionaire founder of one of the world’s leading yoga-business empires, is found murdered inside his West LA flagship studio. Bolster knows the LAPD doesn’t have a prayer of cracking the secrets of the yoga world. But he does, and he really needs the dough.Of course, sticking to the principles of the yamas and niyamas during a murder investigation isn’t easy, especially with so many hot women among the suspects. But personal ethics will be the least of Bolster’s problems if the killer finds him first…

About Neal Pollack

Neal Pollack’s first book, The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, was published in 2000, becoming an (almost) instant cult classic. His debut novel, Never Mind the Pollacks, hit shelves in 2003, and was shamelessly promoted by his band, The Neal Pollack Invasion. In 2007, he published Alternadad, a best-selling memoir. In 2010, Pollack became a certified yoga teacher and published Stretch, a nonfiction account of his adventures in American yoga culture. He has contributed to The New York Times, Wired, Slate, Yoga Journal, and Vanity Fair, among many other publications. Thomas & Mercer published his historical noir novel Jewball in March 2012. He and his wife, the painter Regina Allen, live with their son in Austin, Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vanessa

I like murder mysteries, I thought. I practice yoga. I am a natural reader for this one, I thought. I was wrong. I don't get this book. It's a yoga-based modern noir, with a rumpled PI and a mat-toting moll. So it's a clever idea. But it's also a constant commentary on the perceived superficiality of......more

Goodreads review by Amber

This review is for the audiobook, not the Kindle serial. If you love yoga and humor Neal Pollack nailed both. The insider jokes were right on. To write satire like this you have to love what you're making fun of, and I have no doubt Pollack does. Matt Bolster the hard boiled PI yogi! Though now not to......more

Goodreads review by Juno

Pollack is hilarious and both loves and sees through yoga and yoga culture. The extremely dead-on LA details and gumshoe details make it all work just beautifully......more

Goodreads review by Jan

When a world-famous yoga guru is murdered, the Los Angeles police department calls on the help fo former police officer, Matt Bolster. (Yes, that is his name). Anyway, Matt is no longer a hard-hitting, corrupt policeman. Now he is a dope-smoking poor yoga teacher. But since there is a lot of yoga re......more

Goodreads review by Laura

So far I'm really digging this Kindle serial. I had never read any books in this format before, and while it can be frustrating waiting for the next installment, it's also pretty fun to read along and see where the author takes things. I've read some of Pollack's stuff before at the late, great Über,......more

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