Eliot Pattison

His latest novel “Original Death” was picked as The Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice for their February 2014 issue. Beside this his seventh edition of Inspector Shan series- Mandarin Gate was adjudged as one of CNN's hot thrillers in time for the occasions. Amazon too named it as the best novel of the month and was further named as the best thriller of the year 2012 by PW.

The best place to start is the Inspector Shan series, the earliest of Eliot Pattison's multi-book series: it opens with The Skull Mantra (1999) and runs to 10 books across 1999–2019, ending with Bones of the Earth (2019). Eliot Pattison's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Eliot Pattison has 18 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1999 and 2023. 17 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Inspector Shan series with 10 books — and 1 is a standalone title, collection or anthology.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Eliot Pattison's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Inspector Shan (1999–2019, 10 books) and Bone Rattler (2007–2023, 7 books).

This guide splits Eliot Pattison's 18 books into 2 named series and 1 title that stands alone or appear only in collections: Inspector Shan (10 books, 1999–2019); Bone Rattler (7 books, 2007–2023).