Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday, May 3,
2022. We will be discussing The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison. This
book, set in a Chinese prison camp in Tibet, is the first one featuring
Detective Shan Tao Yun.
The description from the author’s website is--“When a
headless corpse is found on a remote Tibetan mountainside, veteran inspector
Shan Tao Yun is the perfect candidate to solve the crime–except he’s been
stripped of rank and imprisoned in the gulag for offending the Party in Beijing.
Desperate to close the case before the arrival of high-profile American
tourists, the district commander grants Shan a temporary release. The
embittered but brilliant Shan soon discovers the victim was notorious for
persecuting Tibetan priests. When Party officials try to thwart Shan’s
investigation by arresting an innocent monk, Shan is thrown into a maelstrom of
political and religious intrigue. His search for justice takes him from an
American mining project in Tibet to a secret, illegal monastery. Gradually,
Shan exposes a massive crime machine that can only be stopped with the help of
an unlikely alliance of Americans, aged monks, and even a sorcerer. “
We will be meeting in the Second Floor Meeting Room at 6:30
pm, and on Zoom. For more information, and the link, see Sara at the Reference
Desk.
