“…an entertaining, head-spinning murder mystery that combines Buddhist insights with noir tropes on the means streets of Denver.”                 BlueInk Review

"49 Buddhas is the start of a series to watch.”                                                                           Foreword Clarion Reviews

"A reincarnated soul trying to find Nirvana is a whole new way to present a murder mystery. The stakes have never been higher than in this well crafted novel."                             

                                               The BookLife Prize in Fiction

“Ringel keeps readers’ fingers on Lama Rinzen’s pulse at every twist as he races to recover the lost dorje—in a hell in which he himself is lost.”                                                                                  US Review of Books