Water Touching Stone – Eliot Pattison

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Water Touching Stone is the second novel in Eliot Pattison’s Inspector Shan series, following the internationally acclaimed The Skull Mantra. In this gripping mystery, Shan Tao Yun, a former Beijing police inspector exiled to Tibet, has taken refuge in a remote sanctuary. His peaceful retreat is disrupted when he learns that a beloved teacher, revered by Tibet’s oppressed, has been murdered. Shockingly, her orphaned students have died under mysterious circumstances, one by one, seemingly victims of a killer with inscrutable motives.

Determined to seek justice, Shan abandons his mountain hermitage and embarks on a perilous journey to uncover the truth. As he delves deeper into the case, he is confronted with eerie tales of an unleashed “demon,” forcing him to grapple with even darker forces at work in the isolated and spiritually charged environment of Tibet. The novel blends rich cultural and political insights with a haunting and atmospheric mystery, as Shan faces his greatest challenge yet—tracking a killer while trying to restore spiritual balance in a land on the edge of destruction.