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THE SKULL MANTRA
By: Eliot Pattison

Inspector Shan Tao Yun
Minotaur Books
October 2008
On Sale: September 30, 2008
416 pages
ISBN: 0312385390
EAN: 9780312385392
Trade Size (reprint)
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Mystery Private Eye

The corpse is missing its head and is dressed in American clothes. Found by a Tibetan prison work gang on a windy cliff, the grisly remains clearly belong to someone too important for Chinese authorities to bury and forget. So the case is handed to veteran police inspector Shan Tao Yun. Methodical, clever Shan is the best man for the job, but he too is a prisoner, deported to Tibet for offending someone high up in Beijing's power structure. Granted a temporary release, Shan is soon pulled into the Tibetan people's desperate fight for its sacred mountains and the Chinese regime's blood-soaked policies. Then, a Buddhist priest is arrested, a man Shan knows is innocent. Now time is running out for Shan to find the real killer.