Filter:
- Location(s): Pattaya
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Inside a secluded, lush estatelocated on the edge of Pattaya, an eccentric English-man’s gardener is found hanged. Calvino has been hired to investigate. Calvino finds himself pulled deep into the shadows of the war against drugs, into Code Orange...
- Location(s): Singapore, Malaysia (Malaya), Thailand
- Genre(s): Historical, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): WW2
A bestseller in 1946, Railroad of Death is the first and best account of forced labour on the Burma Railway. John Coast was a young officer in the Norfolk Regiment who was taken prisoner at the Fall of Singapore...
Siam: Or the Woman Who Shot a Man
- Location(s): Bangkok, Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Set in 1967, ”Siam” follows the fortunes of Claire, a 25-year-old bride from Boston. Blond-haired, blue-eyed, the daughter of a Harvard classics professor, Claire barely knows where Thailand is when she meets James, her husband-to-be. (”It’s pronounced tie not...
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
The daily robbing, bashing, drugging, extortion and murder of foreign tourists on Thai soil, along with numerous scandals involving unsafe facilities and well established scams, has led to frequent predictions that Thailand’s multi-billion dollar tourist industry will self-destruct. Instead...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s
From the Big Apple, to the Big Orange, to the Big Mango. It does have a kind of nutty logic to it. Bangkok is about as far as you can go without falling off the edge of the world,...
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Short Stories
Characters whose tales are told in William Peskett’s fourth collection of short stories include a bank teller who suspects murder, an old man who loses his shorts, a butcher reminiscing with his biggest customer and a ladyboy searching for...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Number 4 in the Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep novels by John Burdett.He is summoned to investigate the most shocking murder of his career. Solving it could mean a promotion but, still reeling from a personal tragedy, Sonchai is more interested...
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
Based on the story of the author’s Grandmother, Barbara Perkins, a gifted singer, agrees to follow her husband, from Chicago over to “Siam” where he is to take up the position of a missionary doctor. Stationed in the middle...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Poke and his family seem at last to have found stability. Poke and Rose are married, and Miaow, now a complicated and sometimes difficult sixth-grader in one of Bangkok’s international schools, is playing the spirit Ariel in a production...
- Location(s): Koh Tao, Thailand
- Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
THIS THRILLER WAS FIRST LAUNCHED AS ‘THE DIVE’. THIS IS A REBRANDING OF THIS NOVEL Escape to paradise. Scuba diving instructor Cass leads her students out for their first dive off the beautiful coast of Koh Sang, Thailand’s world-famous...
Refine Location
Locations in Thailand
Please wait...
