![]() ![]() The Skull Mantra is the winner of the 2000 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Now time is running out for Shan to find the real killer. When a headless corpse is uncovered by a prison work gang on a windy Tibetan mountain, veteran Beijing police inspector Shan Tao Yin would seem the perfect man. Then, a Buddhist priest is arrested, a man Shan knows is innocent. Granted a temporary release, Shan is soon pulled into the Tibetan people's desperate fight for its sacred mountains and the Chinese regime's blood-soaked policies. Methodical, clever Shan is the best man for the job, but he too is a prisoner, deported to Tibet for offending someone high up in Beijing's power structure. ![]() ![]() So the case is handed to veteran police inspector Shan Tao Yun. 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. The corpse is missing its head and is dressed in American clothes. ![]() The corpse is missing its head and is dressed in American clothes. The Skull Mantra is ranked as a novel about a people and a place-the Tibetans of the high Himalayas-as it is a gripping thriller. The Skull Mantra is ranked as a novel about a people and a place-the Tibetans of the high Himalayas-as it is a gripping thriller. Winner of the 2001 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, The Skull Mantra was a sensation when first published and received wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. ![]()
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