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Thailand: Deadly Destination

Thailand: Deadly Destination
  • Author(s): John Stapleton
  • 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...

The Big Mango

The Big Mango
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • 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,...

The Day of the Tiger

The Day of the Tiger
  • Author(s): William Peskett
  • 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...

The Godfather of Kathmandu

The Godfather of Kathmandu
  • Author(s): John Burdett
  • 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...

The Moon in the Mango Tree

The Moon in the Mango Tree
  • Author(s): Pamela Binnings Ewen
  • 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...

The Queen of Patpong

The Queen of Patpong
  • Author(s): Timothy Hallinan
  • 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...

The Resort

The Resort
  • Author(s): Sara Ochs
  • 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...

Vulture Peak

Vulture Peak
  • Author(s): John Burdett
  • Location(s): Bangkok, World
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact-more or less-despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with...

Sightseeing

Sightseeing
  • Author(s): Rattawut Lapcharoensap
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Subtle and profound comment on the nature of East meets West.

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...

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