Beautiful Ghosts  •  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, $14.95)
Bone Mountain  •  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, $14.95)
Prayer of the Dragon  •  Eliot Pattison MYSTERY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 416 PAGES The fifth superb political thriller set in Tibet by Eliot Pattison. While living with Tibetan lamas since his release from a gulag, exiled Chinese national and former investigator Shan Tao Yun is asked to find the true killer of two men, whose arms had been severed and removed, after a comatose man is accused of the crime. (TBT121, $14.00)
The Skull Mantra  •  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. Winner of the 2000 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. (TBT106, $7.99)
Water Touching Stone  •  Eliot Pattison MYSTERY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 560 PAGES The second of Pattison's superb political thrillers set in Tibet. 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, $7.99)