"Don't ignore intuitive tickles lest they reappear as sledgehammers."

That's the first rule of Ten.

Tenzing Norbu ("Ten" for short)--ex-monk and soon-to-be ex-cop--is a protagonist unique to our times. In The First Rule of Ten, the first installment in a three-book detective series, we meet this spiritual warrior who is singularly equipped, if not occasionally ill-equipped, as he takes on his first case as a private investigator in Los Angeles.

Growing up in a Tibetan Monastery, Ten dreamed of becoming a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. So...