Inspector Shan Books in Order

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.