Beautiful Ghosts
By (Author) Eliot Pattison
Cornerstone
Arrow Books Ltd
1st July 2005
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Thriller / suspense fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
813.54
Paperback
512
Width 110mm, Height 178mm, Spine 31mm
270g
The most compelling novel yet from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Skull Mantra Disgraced former Beijing Inspector Shan Tao Yun has been living in the remote mountains of Tibet since his unofficial release from a work camp. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, he's lived with the forbidden lamas for the past year. But now there's apparently been a murder in a ruined monastery and the very officials who exiled Shan are after his help. In a baffling case involving the FBI, Chinese Ministers, and British relief workers, Shan travels from Tibet to Beijing to the U. S. to find the links between murder, missing art, his former gulag, and his own long-unseen son.
Eliot Pattison's numerous books and articles on international policy issues have been published on three continents. He is a world traveller and frequent visitor to China. The Skull Mantra, his first work of fiction, won the Edgar Award for best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. Beautiful Ghosts is Pattison's fourth novel featuring former Beijing Investigator, Shan Tao Yun.