Eliot Pattison Books in Order

Returned from dangerous intrigues in London, Duncan McCallum finds pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts ready to explode. When a Native sailor is framed for the murders of British officers, Duncan works with John Hancock and Crispus Attucks to stop a killer and delay a war the colonies may not yet win.

Scottish exile Duncan McCallum journeys from the Kentucky wilderness to London after Benjamin Franklin asks him to recover a cache of mysterious fossils. As assassins close in, he uncovers how the relics are tied to secret plans to crush colonial resistance.

After witnessing what he believes is a staged execution, Inspector Shan Tao Yun is forced into a new role as deputy to a Tibetan county governor. Investigating a dead American student, a defamed monk, and a desecrated shrine, he confronts a web of corruption that reaches from Beijing to remote valleys.

A ship from London explodes in Boston Harbor and scatters bodies across the shore, pulling Duncan McCallum into a tangle of sabotage and treason. Pursued as a traitor himself, he races from prisons to backcountry camps to learn who wants to ignite rebellion too soon.

Now serving as constable in a remote Tibetan town, Shan investigates an assault blamed on ghosts and finds an ancient tomb holding three bodies from different eras. His search for the killer exposes a secret effort to reunite long separated refugees and a dangerous corruption probe in Beijing.

In 1765, as protests over the Stamp Act flare, Duncan McCallum is asked to examine ritual killings linked to a stolen Iroquois artifact and vanished frontier couriers. Captured and sold into slavery, he uncovers a plot by powerful Englishmen to silence resistance across the colonies.

Shan Tao Yun is drafted onto an international commission that claims to investigate Tibetan self-immolations but instead brands them as criminal acts. When one supposed suicide proves to be murder and his friend Lokesh is used as leverage, Shan must challenge the official script from inside the system.

Traveling with his friend Conawago during the last days of the French and Indian War, Duncan McCallum discovers a Christian Indian village wiped out and its children abducted. Hunted by soldiers and rebels alike, he follows the trail into a conflict that threatens both native survival and his own loyalties.

While inspecting irrigation ditches in a remote township, Shan stumbles on the bodies of two men and a nun at a half ruined temple. Protecting an American witness forces him into the orbit of a new detention camp for Tibetan dissidents and the ruthless officials who run it.

Decades after global catastrophe, the settlement of Carthage struggles to rebuild with steam engines and strict rules. Hadrian Boone, a disgraced founder, investigates the murder of the colony's chief scientist and discovers hidden crimes, banished outcasts, and secrets that could shatter what is left of their fragile society.

Escorting a dead sherpa over the slopes of Everest, Shan witnesses a bus of imprisoned monks crash and two women gunned down nearby. When officials deny one victim ever existed and his son's life is used as leverage, he must solve a politically explosive double murder.

Highlander Duncan McCallum and Nipmuc shaman Conawago find a Virginian officer nailed to a forest shrine, and Conawago is swiftly blamed. To save his friend, Duncan follows a pattern of symbolic killings from the backwoods to Philadelphia's salons, where land deals and war profits hide behind pious talk.

Summoned from his hidden monastery, Shan travels to a remote Tibetan village where a comatose Navajo visitor faces execution for two ritual murders. As more deaths surface around sacred Dragon Mountain, Shan and his monk companions probe ancient Bon beliefs and modern greed to uncover the real killer.

On a British convict ship bound for the New World, exiled clan chief Duncan McCallum is ordered to investigate a chain of deaths among Highland prisoners. The trail leads onto the New York frontier, where warring armies, Iroquois allies, and his ruthless new master all have their own deadly designs.

Living quietly with outlaw monks in the Tibetan mountains, Shan uncovers evidence of a fresh killing during a ceremony at ruined monastery walls. Drawn into a case involving stolen religious art and a long missing figure, he is pulled from Tibet to Beijing and Seattle in search of answers.

Shan agrees to guide a small band of monks returning the carved eye of an ancient idol to a remote valley, hoping to fulfill a whispered prophecy. When their leader is murdered and the Chinese army and a foreign oil company converge on the mountains, the pilgrimage becomes a struggle to protect Tibet's spirit.

News that a beloved teacher has been murdered and her orphaned students are being hunted pulls Shan from his mountain refuge into the deserts and borderlands of western China. Tracking a ruthless killer, he moves among monks, smugglers, and Muslim clans in a landscape scarred by occupation.

Imprisoned in a Tibetan labor brigade for offending party bosses, former Beijing inspector Shan is briefly released when a headless corpse is found on a mountain road. Pressured to deliver a quick, convenient verdict, he uncovers links between persecuted monks, mining interests, and secrets hidden in forbidden caves.