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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...

Bangkok Noir

Bangkok Noir
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore (editor)
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Noir, Short Stories
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Bangkok is one of the great cities in the world, but unlike other great metropolises it has no noir tales to its name. Bangkok Noir puts that to right. In this first ever noir anthology of Bangkok, twelve seasoned...

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.

Catching the Sun

Catching the Sun
  • Author(s): Tony Parsons
  • Location(s): Phuket
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Just how badly do you want to find paradise? When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand....

Dead Girl Beach

Dead Girl Beach
  • Author(s): Mike Sullivan
  • Location(s): Koh Phangan
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Book 1 of the Sam Seabury Series. At least every five months the body of a young girl turns up dead in a remote tropical lagoon on Thailand’s Koh Phangan Island. The local village pipeline carry stories of the...

Everyone Burns

Everyone Burns
  • Author(s): John Dolan
  • Location(s): Koh Samui
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 2005

It is January 2005 and the charred remains of two Europeans have been discovered on the Thai island of Samui. Local Police Chief Charoenkul, sidelined by his superiors, enlists the reluctant David Braddock, a burnt-out private detective, to assist...

Jasmine Nights

Jasmine Nights
  • Author(s): S P Somtow
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1960s

This is the story of a 12-year-old Thai boy called Mr Little Frog. The year is 1963 and he lives on the family estate in Bangkok. He refuses to accept that he is Thai, eats English food, speaks only...

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