Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bone Rattler | 2007 | Eliot Pattison | Buy |
| 2 | Eye of the Raven | 2009 | Eliot Pattison | Buy |
| 3 | Original Death | 2013 | Eliot Pattison | Buy |
| 4 | Blood of the Oak | 2016 | Eliot Pattison | Buy |
| 5 | Savage Liberty | 2018 | Eliot Pattison | Buy |
| 6 | The King’s Beast | 2020 | Eliot Pattison | Buy |
| 7 | Freedom’s Ghost | 2023 | Eliot Pattison | Buy |
The Bone Rattler series follows Duncan McCallum, a Scottish immigrant who arrives in colonial America as an indentured servant and finds himself drawn into a series of mysteries set against the backdrop of American history. The seven books, published between 2007 and 2023, move from the frontier conflicts of the French and Indian War through the revolutionary period.
Pattison brings the same research-heavy approach to colonial America that he applied to Tibet in the Inspector Shan series. McCallum’s outsider perspective gives readers a way into a world of competing interests: British colonists, Native Americans, French forces, and eventually the revolutionary movement. The series progresses chronologically, with later books like Savage Liberty and Freedom’s Ghost placing McCallum in the thick of the fight for American independence.