A Quiet Village

A Thai lawyer tries to flee the law in England

A Thai lawyer on the run. A village with too many secrets. A monk who collects more than alms.

When Chaya, a disgraced Bangkok lawyer, flees to a remote English village, he thinks he’s escaped his past—until a severed toe arrives in the mail. Now, the Thai gangster he betrayed has sent a female killer, a razor-wielding assassin, to finish the job. But this village isn’t as peaceful as it seems.

The locals are oddly eager to help Chaya hide a body. The village’s enigmatic leader, a Thai-speaking English monk, lives in a manor lined with gold-leafed Buddhas… and unmarked graves. And the more Chaya digs, the clearer it becomes: the monk didn’t bring Buddhism to this village—he brought something darker.
A lawyer chasing ghosts. A monk with too many students. A village where no one stays missing for long.

When disgraced lawyer Chaya flees to Thailand to track down his vanished secretary, he finds only whispers—and a bloodstained digit linking her disappearance to the English village he once called home. Returning to the fog-drenched fields, he discovers something worse: students at the monk’s prestigious school are vanishing one by one.

• The monastery’s accounts show payments for "special tuition"—in kilos, not grades.