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Beautiful Ghosts

Beautiful Ghosts


by Eliot Pattison

  • MYSTERY
  • 2005
  • PAPER

Fourth in Pattison's series of superb political thrillers set in Tibet. Having lived a year in exile and disgrace since his unofficial release from a work camp, former Beijing inspector Shan Tao Yun is entreated by the officials who exiled him to help with a murder investigation involving missing art, his former gulag, and his son. (TBT119, $15.99)

Bone Mountain

Bone Mountain


by Eliot Pattison

  • MYSTERY
  • 2005
  • PAPER

Third in Pattison's series of superb political thrillers set in Tibet. Agreeing to lead an expedition to return a long-lost Tibetan idol to a remote valley, former Beijing police inspector Shan finds the pilgrimage threatened by the murder of the monk guiding them, an American woman geologist who has fled to the mountains, and the Chinese army, from whom the idol had been stolen and that is now in hot pursuit. (TBT120, $15.95)

The Lord of Death

The Lord of Death


by Eliot Pattison

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

Exiled Beijing investigator Shan Tao Yun has his hands full when he happens upon an overturned bus (full of suddenly freed Tibetan monks) -- and two women shot -- on the slopes of Mt. Everest. The exceptional sixth intallment of Eliot Pattison's series, all featuring Shan Tao Yun in Tibet. (TBT131, $14.00)

Prayer of the Dragon

Prayer of the Dragon


by Eliot Pattison

  • MYSTERY
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 416 PAGES

In this fifth superb political thriller set in modern Tibet, former Beijing inspector Shan comes the aid of a Navajo visitor at a remote monastery. (TBT121, $14.00)

The Skull Mantra

The Skull Mantra


by Eliot Pattison

  • MYSTERY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

The first in Pattison's series of superb political thrillers set in Tibet. When a headless corpse turns up on a Tibetan mountainside, veteran police inspector Shan Tao Yun is released from prison to investigate the crime, and he quickly uncovers a conspiracy involving American mining interests, corrupt Party officials and Tibetan sorcerers. (TBT106, $14.95)

Water Touching Stone

Water Touching Stone


by Eliot Pattison

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 480 PAGES

Second in the series. Aided by a young Kazakh woman, former Beijing police investigator Shan Tao Yun heads for a remote Tibetan plateau to investigate the murder of a venerated teacher and the subsequent disappearance of a lama, but his probe is soon complicated by the resentment of local Tibetans, a sullen resistance fighter and a dead American. (TBT107, $15.99)

 

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