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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...

Killed at the Whim of a Hat

Killed at the Whim of a Hat
  • Author(s): Colin Cotterill
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Jimm Juree was a crime reporter for the Chiang Mai Daily Mail with a somewhat eccentric family-a mother who might be drifting mentally: a grandfather-a retired cop-who rarely talks: a younger brother obsessed with body-building, and a transgendered, former...

Nightmare in Bangkok: The Incredible True Account of Survival

Nightmare in Bangkok: The Incredible True Account of Survival
  • Author(s): Andy Botts
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Andy Botts began his criminal activities as a young ‘car banger’ in his native Hawaii before graduating to drug-dealing and trafficking. After a number of successful and highly lucrative drug runs to Bangkok and Bali (though not without some...

Nowhere to Goa

Nowhere to Goa
  • Author(s): Doug E Jones
  • Location(s): India, Nepal, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Nowhere To Goa is a travel adventure novel set in Nepal, India, and Thailand that takes off when Scott, a studious sophomore at Northwestern University, flies halfway around the world to bring home his troublesome twin brother who has...

Phnom Penh Express

Phnom Penh Express
  • Author(s): Johan Smits
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Belgium, Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A young Cambodian returns home. A diamond shipment goes missing. A foreign assassin arrives in Phnom Penh. And then there s chocolate lots of it. Phirun is determined to make it as Cambodia s first chocolate chef. But things...

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