Bones of the Earth
Bones of the Earth is Edgar Award-winning author Eliot Pattison’s much anticipated tenth and final installment in the internationally acclaimed Inspector Shan series.
Skeleton God
"Edgar-winner Pattison remains without peer at integrating a fair-play whodunit into a searing portrayal of life under an oppressive and capricious regime. Even readers unfamiliar with the physical and cultural devastation China has wrought in Tibet will find themselves engrossed¯and moved¯by Pattison’s nuanced portrayal."¯Publishers Weekly (starred boxed review)
Soul of the Fire
Booklist Review : Taken abruptly from inspecting ditches, Shan Tao Yun a former Beijing investigator who had served five years in Tibet's harshest labor camp expects to be imprisoned again. Instead he's assigned as the reformed criminal on an international commission convened to investigate the problem of Tibetans' self-immolations. It's soon apparent that the commission […]
Bone Mountain
Beautiful Ghosts
The Skull Mantra
Water Touching Stone
Ashes of the Earth : a Mystery of Post-apocalyptic America
Publishers Weekly Having successfully portrayed both modern-day Tibet and Colonial America in two series, Edgar-winner Pattison (Eye of the Raven) launches a third with this brilliant if grim mystery set in the 21st century 25 years after global mega-acts of terror have destroyed all U.S. government entities and almost all infrastructure. Hadrian Boone, one of […]
The Lord of Death
Publishers Weekly Edgar-winner Pattison blends an eye-opening look at contemporary China with a traditional whodunit in his stellar sixth Tibet mystery (after 2007's Prayer of the Dragon). Shan Tao Yun, exiled after a career pursuing high-level corruption in the Chinese government, is arrested for the murder of China's minister of tourism, gunned down along with […]
Prayer of the Dragon
The Washington Post – Patrick Anderson: Pattison's plot is complex, at times bewildering, although he does wrap things up neatly at the end. In truth, however, Prayer of the Dragon is less notable for its murder mystery than for its sensitive and highly detailed portrait of two cultures in conflict?This novel taught me more about […]