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The Big Weird

The Big Weird
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

A beautiful American blond is found dead with a large bullet hole in her head in the house of her ex-boyfriend. A famous Hollywood screen-writer hires Calvino to investigate her death. Everyone except Calvino’s client believes Samantha McNeal has...

A Killing Smile

A Killing Smile
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Late 1990s

A Killing Smile is a simple but deep story about the aftermath of events following the death of a successful Los Angeles attorney’s wife. Lost, confused, and angry, Lawrence Baring, Esq. goes to Bangkok and confronts Tuttle–the man his...

A Nail Through the Heart

A Nail Through the Heart
  • Author(s): Timothy Hallinan
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Travel writer Poke Rafferty was good at looking for trouble – so good that he made a little money writing a few offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored. But that was before Bangkok stole his heart....

A World of Trouble

A World of Trouble
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Dubai, Hong Kong
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Jack Shepherd is sick of Washington politics, sick of corporate law, and even a little sick of himself. So he hits the road looking for a new start, makes a couple of wrong turns, and winds up in Hong...

Bamboo Grove

Bamboo Grove
  • Author(s): Romy Wood
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A pseudo-Buddhist monk, an illegal immigrant, a bipolar teenager and a quixotic pair of young businessmen are all bound by Eastern Vision, an empire selling everything from faux-Eastern objets to real estate, from client-centred sperm-donation to gypsy magic. A...

Bangkok Bob and The Missing Mormon

Bangkok Bob and The Missing Mormon
  • Author(s): Stephen Leather
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Long-term Bangkok resident and former New Orleans cop Bob Turtledove has a knack for getting people out of difficult situations. So when a young man from Utah goes missing in Bangkok, his parents are soon knocking on Bob’s door...

Bangkok Eight

Bangkok Eight
  • Author(s): John Burdett
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When a US Marine is killed in Bangkok, the task of finding the murderer falls to Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, seemingly the only member of the Royal Thai Police Force whose idea of justice excludes the habitual bribe-taking practised by...

Bangkok Haunts

Bangkok Haunts
  • Author(s): John Burdett
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep has seen just about everything on his beat in Bangkok’s crime-riddled District 8. But the terrifying snuff movie he’s been sent anonymously is something else: the person who dies is Damrong, the beautiful woman he once...

Bangkok Rules

Bangkok Rules
  • Author(s): Harlan Wolff
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Thailand is terrified. A sadistic serial killer has been abducting young innocents for his ritual horror and the authorities are clueless. Carl Engel is an enigma. The blunt Londoner has forged a thirty-year career as a private investigator amid...

Bangkok Tattoo

Bangkok Tattoo
  • Author(s): John Burdett
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The second in the series of Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep . This takes the reader not only through Bangkok but to the area further south where there is a lot of unrest.

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