The books by Eliot Pattison set in Tibet are some of my favorites. I love the characters and the depictions of the country - although I don't love what the author tells us about what is happening to the country of Tibet and its people.
Shan Tao Yun is Chinese, a former Beijing Investigator who was sent to the Tibetan gulag after he reported corruption in various areas of the government. He learned to love the Buddhist monk who were prisoners with him and now tries to aid the Tibetan people when he can. Right now, that means that he collects the dead from the mountain. His latest assignment brings him to a traffic accident and a double murder.Even though a Western woman dies in his arms, officals deny that there was such a person there. They arrest him for the death of a female Ministry official but then release him and arrest the man who is the prison official in charge of his son.
Soon finding the killer will mean that his son will not be killed or tortured in the "yeti factory" - the local torture hospital.
Shan's mind absorbs minute details and makes connections that others with the same information fail to make. The final outcome is a surprise coupled with a sense of joy.
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