I have quite liked the several books I've read in Eliot Pattison's Inspector Shan Tao Yun series - and the first book in that series won an Edgar for Best First Novel in 2000. But somehow I have never gotten around to reading any of the books in his Duncan McCallum historical series. Although I wonder if there might be a bit of whiplash going from a series set in a Chinese labor camp to a series set in colonial America, I would expect the McCallum books to also be good. And, right now, the first book in the series,
Bone Rattler, is on sale for $1.99/£0.79 in the US/UK.
Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003OUX5DM
Kobo US:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/bone-rattler-5
Kindle UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003OUX5DM
Spoiler:
Quote:
The Edgar Award winner’s acclaimed historical mystery series is “The Last of the Mohicans meets Braveheart, with a curious dash of CSI” (Entertainment Weekly).
Aboard a convict ship, Scottish Highlander Duncan McCallum is bound for colonial New York—and the bloody maw of the French and Indian War.
Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, Duncan McCallum witnesses a series of murders and apparent suicides among his fellow Scottish prisoners. A strange trail of clues leads Duncan into the New World and eventually thrusts him into the French and Indian War. Duncan is indentured to the British Lord Ramsey, whose estate in the uncharted New York woodlands is a Heart of Darkness where multiple warring factions are engaged in physical, psychological, and spiritual battle.
Exploring a frontier world shrouded in danger and defying death in a wilderness populated by European settlers, Indian shamans, and mysterious scalping parties, Duncan, the exiled chief of his near–extinct Scottish clan, finds that sometimes justice cannot be reached unless the cultures and spirits of those involved are appeased.
In a novel rich in historical detail, acclaimed author Eliot Pattison reconsiders the founding of America and explores how disenfranchised people of any age and place struggle to find justice, how conflicting cultures can be reconciled through compassion and tolerance, and ultimately how the natural world has its own morality.
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