Shan Tao Yun mysteries
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Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
403 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a headless corpse is discovered on a Tibetan mountainside, former police inspector Shan Tao Yun is released from prison with an ultimatum; solve the case or other prisoners will be punished, but when Shan Tao Yun discovers the political ramifications of the case, he encounters resistance from the police and government.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
419 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The news that a venerated teacher has been murdered and a lama is missing sends an unlikely band of outcasts into the remote northern reaches of the Tibetan plateau. Two old Tibetans travel to restore the spiritual balance disturbed by violent death. A sullen resistance fighter races to battle a new foe. But Shan Tao Yun, former Beijing investigator and newly released from four years of prison camp, sets out to find justice. In the dangerous borderlands...
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Series
Shan Tao Yun mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
424 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 20 cm.
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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"In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family and his freedom when he ran afoul of a powerful figure high in the Chinese government. Released unofficially from the work camp to which he'd been sentenced, Shan has been living in remote mountains of Tibet with a group of outlawed Buddhist monks. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, Shan...
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"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...
9) Skeleton God
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm
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
Shan Tao Yun mysteries volume 10
Publisher
ST MARTIN'S PRESS
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English