The Mystery Bookshelf, where you can discover a library of new mysteries, is pleased to feature a new mystery series title we recently received from the publisher.
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The Lord of Death by Eliot Pattison
A Shan Tao Yun Mystery (6th in series)
(Trade Paperback)
Publication Date: June 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-56947-642-0
About The Lord of Death (from the publisher): Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing investigator on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned as punishment. He is ferrying a corpse on muleback over the slopes of Chomolungma—Everest—at the request of a local wisewoman who says the gods have appointed this task to him, when he encounters what looks like a traffic accident. A government bus filled with imprisoned illegal monks has overturned. Then Shan hears gunfire. Two women in an approaching sedan have been killed. One is the Chinese minister of tourism; the other, a blond Westerner, organizes climbing expeditions. Though she dies in his arms, Shan is later met with denials that this foreigner is dead.
Shan must find the murderer, for his recompense will be the life and sanity of his son, Ko, imprisoned in a Chinese “yeti factory” where men are routinely driven mad.
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About Eliot Pattison: A world traveler and frequent visitor to China, whose numerous books and articles on international policy issues have been published on three continents, he is the author of six books set in Tibet featuring former Inspector Shan Tao Yun, including the Edgar Award-winning first novel in the series, The Skull Mantra. Visit his website at EliotPattison.com.
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