Downward-Facing Death
A Matt Bolster Yoga Mystery: Book #1
- By: Neal Pollack
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
- Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Description
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 L.A. 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.
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A Matt Bolster Yoga Mystery Series

Downward-Facing Death
By: Neal Pollack
Narrated by: Fred Stella
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Open Your Heart
By: Neal Pollack
Narrated by: Fred Stella
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
After solving the murder of illustrious guru Ajoy Chaterjee, yoga detective Matt Bolster is finally getting some students at his Los Angeles yoga classes. With attendance now hitting the double digits, nothing can stop the Bolster express.
When Bolster gets invited to teach at The Gathering, a prestigious yoga retreat run by the renowned Tom... Read more »
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