Felonious Monk

Beneath Buddhist prayer flags, a reporter is found dead at dawn on a Vermont ashram. Summoned by an old friend who runs a silent retreat, astrologer Axel Crowe arrives to assess the situation. Within hours, the police arrest his friend for murder.

Believing him innocent, Crowe suspects instead a mysterious devotee who may be ex-CIA, and the beautiful Thai woman who accompanied him to the retreat. But when Crowe follows them to New York, the woman disappears and the man threatens to make Crow...