Eliot Pattison

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1999
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Bone Rattler / A Mystery of Colonial America

1 - Bone Rattler (Oct-2007)
2 - Eye of the Raven (Jan-2010)
3 - Original Death (Jul-2013)
4 - Song of the Oak (Mar-2016)
5 - Blood of the Oak (Mar-2017)
6 - Savage Liberty (May-2018)
7 - The King's Beast (Apr-2020)

Inspector Shan Tao Yun

1 - The Skull Mantra (Sep-1999)
2 - Water Touching Stone (Jun-2001)
3 - Bone Mountain (Sep-2002)
4 - Beautiful Ghosts (Apr-2004)
5 - Prayer of the Dragon (Dec-2007)
6 - The Lord of Death (Jun-2009)
7 - Mandarin Gate (Dec-2012)
8 - Soul of the Fire (Nov-2014)
9 - Skeleton God (Mar-2017)
10 - Bones of the Earth (Mar-2019)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • The Skull Mantra

    Inspector Shan Tao Yun - 1

    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 v...

  • Water Touching Stone

    Inspector Shan Tao Yun - 2

    Cloistered in a remote sanctuary, Shan Tao Yun has received shattering news. A teacher revered by the oppressed has been found slain. One by one, her orphaned students have followed her to her grave, victims of a child-killer harboring unfathomable m...

  • Bone Mountain

    Inspector Shan Tao Yun - 3

    Deep in the heart of Tibet, disgraced ex-Beijing police inspector Shan Tao Yun is on the run from the brutal Chinese army. He has agreed to lead an expedition to return a long-missing stone eye to the idol from which it was stolen an act that, accord...

  • Beautiful Ghosts

    Inspector Shan Tao Yun - 4

    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...

  • Bone Rattler

    Bone Rattler / A Mystery of Colonial America - 1

    The Edgar Award winner’s acclaimed historical mystery series is “The Last of the Mohicans meets Braveheart, with a curious dash of CSI” (Entertainment Weekly).Aboard a convict ship, Scottish Highlander Duncan McCallum is bound for colonial New ...

  • Prayer of the Dragon

    Inspector Shan Tao Yun - 5

    Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national, a former Beijing investigator, on parole from the Tibetan work camp to which he had been consigned as punishment. Summoned to a remote village to save a comatose man from summary execution for two murders, ...

  • The Lord of Death

    Inspector Shan Tao Yun - 6

    Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national, a former Beijing investigator, on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned. He is leading a mule bearing a corpse over the slopes of Chomolungma -- Everest -- at the request of a local w...

  • Eye of the Raven

    Bone Rattler / A Mystery of Colonial America - 2

    With the aid of the Native American Shaman Conawago, Duncan McCallum has begun to heal from the massacre of his Highland clan by the British. But his new life is shattered when he and Conawago discover a dying Virginian officer nailed to an Indian sh...

  • Ashes of the Earth

    Thirty years after global holocaust, the colony of Carthage still struggles to build its new world. While steam engines and other early industrial technology have empowered its economy, the fragile society is undermined by secret crimes, rifts betwee...



  • Mandarin Gate

    Inspector Shan Tao Yun - 7

    In Mandarin Gate, Edgar Award winner Eliot Pattison brings Shan back in a thriller that navigates the explosive political and religious landscape of Tibet. In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his pos...

  • Original Death

    Bone Rattler / A Mystery of Colonial America - 3

    “Edgar"winner Pattison combines action, period details, and a whodunit with ease in his impressive third mystery set in Colonial America.” -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)Despite the raging war between French and British, Scottish exile D...

  • Soul of the Fire

    Inspector Shan Tao Yun - 8

    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 h...

  • Song of the Oak

    Bone Rattler / A Mystery of Colonial America - 4

    A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016

    The year is 1765, at the beginning of the Stamp Tax dissent, the first organized resistance to English rule. Duncan McCallum is drawn into the mystery of a series of murders and kidnappings that are stran...

  • Blood of the Oak

    Bone Rattler / A Mystery of Colonial America - 5

    The Edgar Award"winner’s colonial series continues as Scottish exile Duncan McCallum uncovers a loyalist conspiracy -- “Historical mystery at its best” (Booklist, starred review).The American Colonies, 1765. As the Stamp Act dissent marks the...

  • Skeleton God

    Inspector Shan Tao Yun - 9

    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 ...

  • Savage Liberty

    Bone Rattler / A Mystery of Colonial America - 6

    Following a tortuous path of sabotage and treason, exiled Scotsman Duncan McCallum must survive his enemies long enough to glimpse the emergence of the American Revolution in this thrilling Publishers Weekly Best Mystery of the Year.When a ship arriv...

  • Bones of the Earth

    Inspector Shan Tao Yun - 10

    Bones of the Earth is Edgar-award winning author Eliot Pattison’s much anticipated tenth and final installment in the internationally acclaimed Inspector Shan series. After Shan Tao Yun is forced to witness the execution of a Tibetan for corrupt...

  • The King's Beast

    Bone Rattler / A Mystery of Colonial America - 7

    A simple task to retrieve some artifacts turns into a nightmare of deceit when Duncan McCallum finds himself the target of those obsessed with keeping America under British rule in this thrilling historical novel from an Edgar Award"winning author....

  • Freedom's Ghost

    As the drumbeat of the American Revolution grows ever closer, Scotsman-turned-American-patriot Duncan McCallum must navigate treacherous cultural and political waters if he’s to secure a fighting chance for the fledgling nation in this gripping ins...



Award-Winning Books by Eliot Pattison

The Skull Mantra
2000 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- First Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Eliot Pattison has published 19 books.

Eliot Pattison does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Freedom's Ghost, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Eliot Pattison, The Skull Mantra, was published in September 1999.

Yes. Eliot Pattison has 2 series.
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