“In her jewel of a book, Who Killed Donte Manning?, Rose Marie Berger engages in the ancient prophetic tradition of calling us to bear witness to the “terrible beauty” of the sacred breaking into our ordinary lives, allowing it to transform ourselves and our communities. Through Berger’s finely tuned biblical lens, we are invited to see the whole of the human condition, from the violent death of an innocent child to the tenderness of a Muslim pizza driver kneeling in prayer as the sun sets over the streets of the inner city, as an opportunity to offer our prayers for the redemption of the world.” —Mirabai Starr, Teresa of Avila: The Book of My Life, The Interior Castle, and John of the Cross’ Dark Night of the Soul

Eliot Pattison has made a name for himself with his complex Tibetan Buddhist mysteries with disgraced Chinese detective Shan Yao. Now Pattison draws readers into the intricacies of the American Colonial period and the French Indian War. With his characteristic teaming up of what seem to be unlikely suspects, Pattison explores the shared experiences of indigenous American Indians who are systematically being wiped out by the British, French, and fledgling Americans and a Scottish Highlander whose clan has been all but wiped out by the cruel excesses of the British Army in the Clearances. As always, Pattison's history is well researched but not contrived. His characters are bright and warm. And his tale is well told. I couldn't put it down!