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Author
Series
Inspector Shan Tao Yun volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Leading an expedition to return a long-lost Tibetan idol to a remote valley, former Beijing police inspector Shan finds the journey threatened by the murder of the monk guiding them and the Chinese army.
Author
Series
Inspector Shan Tao Yun volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In Water Touching Stone, the sequel to the internationally acclaimed The Skull Mantra, Shan Tao Yun is cloistered in a remote Tibetan sanctuary when he receives shattering news. A teacher revered by the oppressed has been found slain and, one by one, her orphaned students have followed her to her grave, victims of a killer harboring unfathomable motives. Abandoning his mountain hermitage, Shan Tao Yun, a former Beijing police inspector who has been...
Author
Series
Inspector Shan Tao Yun volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Having lived a year in exile since his 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.
Author
Series
Inspector Shan Tao Yun volume 5
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Summoned to a remote village from the hidden lamasery where he lives, Shan, formerly an investigator in Beijing, must save a comatose man from execution for two murders in which the victims arms have been removed. Upon arrival, he discovers that the suspect is not Tibetan but Navajo. The man has come with his niece to seek ancestral ties between their people and the ancient Bon. The recent murders are only part of a chain of deaths. Together...
Author
Series
Inspector Shan Tao Yun volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
When a headless corpse turns up on a Tibetan mountainside, 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.
6) Skeleton God
Author
Series
Inspector Shan Tao Yun volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Shan Tao Yun, now the reluctant constable of a remote Tibetan town, has learned to expect the impossible at the roof of the world, but nothing has prepared him for his discovery when he investigates a report that a nun has been savagely assaulted by ghosts. In an ancient tomb by the old nun lies a gilded saint buried centuries earlier, flanked by the remains of a Chinese soldier killed fifty years before and an American man murdered only hours earlier....
Author
Series
Inspector Shan Tao Yun volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When Shan Tao Yun and his old friend Lokesh are abruptly dragged away by Public Security, he is convinced that their secret, often illegal, support of struggling Tibetans has brought their final ruin. But his fear turns to confusion as he discovers he has been chosen to fill a vacancy on a special international commission investigating Tibetan suicides. Soon he finds that his predecessor was murdered, and when a monk sets himself on fire in front...
Author
Series
Inspector Shan Tao Yun volume 6
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national, a former Beijing Investigator, on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned as punishment. Leading a mule bearing a corpse at the request of a local wisewoman, he comes upon a traffic accident involving a government bus transporting illegal monks to prison. Two women in an approaching vehicle are shot, and one dies in his arms. Shan must find the killer, for his reward will be the life...
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