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bookshelves: hardback, mystery-thriller, series, spring-2013, tbr-busting-2013, tibet, onhold Read from April 10 to 21, 2013 Opening: There are sounds in Tibet heard nowhere else in the world. Hollow moans inexplicably roll down the slopes of snowcapped peaks.Himahlya reads in Spring 2013:3* In ...
bookshelves: published-2002, series, paper-read, china, mystery-thriller, tibet, tbr-busting-2013, spring-2013, hardback Read from April 10 to 23, 2013 ** spoiler alert ** First line - "Sift the sand to find the seeds of the universe."Shan, the canny Han, and his sidekick Lokesh in another grim t...
bookshelves: mystery-thriller Read in January, 2008 Superbly written but not a light flick-through. This is erudition with a capital E. Featuring Shan, the Canny Han. The corpse is missing its head and is dressed in American clothes. Found by a Tibetan prison work gang on a windy cliff, the gr...
Shan was a detective. He didn't work within the system and has ended up working on a road gang largely populated by Buddhist Monks whose attitude has infected Shan and induced him to embrace Buddhism. It is a surprise to him that he's made to investigate a murder, but he's certain that the monk t...
This is the second story of Shan Tao Yun, the former Beijing investigator turned prisoner and Buddhist. He's sent to investigate the death of a venerated Buddhist teacher and lama and finds himself embroiled in the politics of a different kind. There are stretches of this book that resonated deepl...
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