Dead Karma: A Swanson Herbinko Mystery in Tulum

Boston divorce lawyer Swanson Herbinko should know better than to fall in love again after her first two loves ended tragically, but when the sun is hot and the water is turquoise blue and there’s irresistible magic in the air-in other words if she’s at a sea splashed yoga retreat in Tulum, Mexico-she can’t help it if she finds herself with not one love interest but two: nice guy Mark Stevens, a fellow yoga practitioner, and the charismatic yoga entrepreneur Hunter Hanna. Swanson falls under Hunter’s sway at his hot yoga studio, Savas Hanna, in Boston where she also meets Christine who claims to be first among Hunter’s lovers and enlists Swanson to help Hunter get a divorce from his business partner spouse Layla so he can marry her. Swanson and her PI associate Dick are 2 of 9 new arrivals at the Savas Hanna Tulum retreat. While visiting the famous Mayan ruins there one of the group falls off a cliff to the sea below. And then there are 8. Dick discovers that one of Hunter’s inner circle is a notorious Mayan drug lord, and the retreat far from being karmically pure is a money laundering front. Jealousy swirls around Swanson as Hunter showers her with attention, and as the spell she’s been under finally shatters Swanson finds herself dangerously close to finding out firsthand what happened on that Mayan cliff. Then suddenly the unthinkable occurs. Devil Dog, her trusty dachshund guardian, is dog-napped.