A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills David J. Voelker When Chief of Police Kate

When Chief of Police Kate Burkholder arrives on the scene

Planarians

Winner of the 2024 Edgar Award for Best Novel

It's my reality

Written by an experienced clinical psychologist and educational and developmental psychologist

A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills David J. Voelker When Chief of Police Kate'Mist fills the Himalayan valleys, and monsoon rain sweeps across the hills. Sometimes, during the day, a bird visits me a deep purple whistling thrush. She perches on the window sill, and looks out with me at the rain.' This personal diary records the many small moments that constitute a life of harmony with the self, the natural world, and friends, family and passersby. In these pages, we watch a wild plum blossom and the moon come up between two