Thai Mysteries

As owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, Betsy Devonshire has become skilled at weaving suspicious threads together. Just back from a trip to Thailand, Doris Valentine is eager to show her stitching friends her souvenirs, which include dazzling Thai silk. She also has a small stone Buddha that she agreed to deliver to an antique store in St. Paul. It's wrapped in a dirty rag, which she throws away.

Praise for Pattaya Heat: "IF YOU ENJOY OLD DETECTIVE STORIES, YOU'LL ENJOY THIS." "EXCELLENT BOOK AND A GREAT NEW DETECTIVE!" Welcome to Pattaya City, Thailand. This piss-poor paradise makes Las Vegas look like a PG-13 Disney movie. Pattaya is where Richy Sky has landed for a premature mid-life crisis. This is not where he wants to be, scraping by taking small-time PI jobs, mostly infidelity investigations. The fun, if you could call it that, can't last forever, and now Richy sees a way out -- a new job, one that pays very well. All he has to do is find a missing antique watch that's worth ...

Ever since a shred of shrapnel did a number on his brain's sleep center, Even Tanner has been awake 24/7. This gives him more time than your average underachiever. Time to learn the world's languages (he's fluent in Basque, but has trouble with Chinese). Time to embrace the world's lost causes and irredentist movements (The Flat Earth Society, the League for the Restoration of Cilician Armenia, the Society of the Left Hand). Time to write term papers theses for students with more money than knowledge.

THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORESS'S TALE. A GIRLS' SCHOOL HOCKEY TEAM VANISHES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM. CAN SHERLOCK HOLMES FIND THEM IN TIME? The senior field hockey team from an elite girls’ school goes to Dover for a beach holiday … and disappears. Have they been abducted into White Slavery? Did they run off to Paris? Are they being held for ransom? Holmes, Watson, Lestrade, the Prioress of the school, and a new gang of Irregulars must find them before something terrible happens. A tribute to The Adventure of the Priory School in The Canon. “A ...

Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is put in charge of the highest-profile criminal case in Thailand - an attempt to bring an end to trafficking in human organs. He sets in motion a massive sting operation and stays at its center, traveling to Phuket, Hong Kong, Dubai, Shanghai, and Monte Carlo. He draws in a host of unwitting players that includes an aging rock star wearing out his second liver and the mysterious, diabolical, albeit gorgeous co-queenpins of the international body-parts trade: the Chinese twins known as the Vultures.

Embrace the shadows, dear reader. In this anthology of 50 short stories, we invite you to immerse yourself in a world of spine-tingling suspense, macabre tales, and haunting encounters. Brace yourself for a collection that will leave you breathless, disturbed, and questioning the very fabric of reality. Within these pages, you will encounter the rich tapestry of Thai culture woven with elements of suspense, crime, horror, fear, and the supernatural. From sprawling cityscapes to remote villages, each story transports you to a unique setting, where Thais and foreigners grapple with their ...

Under a Bangkok bridge, inside a bolted-shut Mercedes: a murder by snake - a charismatic African-American Marine sergeant killed by a methamphetamine-stoked python and a swarm of stoned cobras. Two cops - the only two in the city not on the take - arrive too late. Minutes later, only one is alive: Sonchai Jitpleecheep - a devout Buddhist, equally versed in the sacred and the profane - son of a long-gone Vietnam War G.I. and a Thai bar girl whose subsequent international clientele contributed richly to Sonchai’s sophistication. (Abridged edition.)

From the author of the best seller Bangkok 8, a head-spinning new novel that puts us back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep.

Quand la démonstration culinaire d'un chef célèbre tourne au drame, une blogueuse voyage devient détective amateur au paradis. Hannah Sinclair pensait vivre l'aventure culinaire de sa vie à Phuket—documenter l'atelier exclusif du renommé Chef Pichai Wanich dans un complexe thaïlandais de luxe. Mais quand le chef s'effondre pendant sa démonstration en direct, empoisonné par son propre plat signature, la caméra d'Hannah capture bien plus que des techniques culinaires. Avec ses images comme preuve cruciale et une enquête officielle qui se heurte à de mystérieux obstacles, Hannah...

Critically acclaimed, nationally best-selling author John Burdett has earned starred reviews for the fast-paced action, snappy dialogue, and gritty realism of his thrilling tales starring Royal Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep. In this vibrant and witty novel, devout Buddhist Sonchai relies on his karma to guide him through the seamy underbelly of Bangkok as he pieces together the scattered clues of a complex mystery.

*Amazon #1 Bestseller* *Winner-Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence* *Winner-Silver Medal-Global Book Awards* and 1st Book in Tejas Desai’s Riveting International Crime Trilogy The Brotherhood Chronicle (The Brotherhood, The Run and Hide, The Dance Towards Death)! *NOW BEING RELEASED: TEJAS DESAI'S LATEST BOOK, BAD AMERICANS (AKA THE GREAT AMERICAN PANDEMIC NOVEL), AN AMBITIOUS FRAME NOVEL FILLED WITH 12 SHORT STORIES BEING RELEASED IN PARTS FROM MARCH 15, 2025 TO APRIL 15, 2026. CHECK OUT HIS AUTHOR PAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION!* Enter a sinister, exotic world of danger, surprise and ...

After serving in Vietnam, Penn Gwinn and his combat buddy, Jim Starret, relocate to Bangkok, purchasing a saloon to house their bodies and beleaguered souls. Despite its meager profits, they consider it their “retirement.” Their former involvement with the Defense Intelligence Agency comes back to haunt them, however, when the sister of a dead buddy – a DIA field operative – shows up and demands their help.

Sonchai Jitpleecheep - the brash and beguiling Royal Thai Police Force detective who has been our guide through John Burdett’s five previous acclaimed Bangkok novels - is back. The former monk and devout Buddhist, forever battling to protect his karma from the assaults of morally compromising cases, is now faced with the most horrifying technological innovation to make its way to the streets of Bangkok and a conspiracy of almost unfathomable reach.

Marked: An Anthology of Dark Mysteries Step into Marked's dark and twisted world, an anthology of eight short stories that will chill your blood and keep you guessing until the end. In the first story, a young girl is marked in an unfortunate accident, forever changing her life. The truth shocked her. In the second, an actor witnesses a series of bizarre and disturbing events at a theatre and begins questioning his sanity. In the third, we travel back to uncover the dark secrets hidden in a grandfather's papers. The other stories in the anthology are haunting and suspenseful, featuring a ...

Welcome to book number six in this collection of 23 anthologies of short and dark stories. Something is afoot when an elderly office worker asks her boss for some ice, not for a gin and tonic, but something far larger. In story two, a young Rupert-loving boy struggles to find his mum. She must be somewhere. She is! A gang of youngsters plan on a night in a tent on a golf course, and one boy decides he must go home. Something is disturbing his mind. What did he miss? Book number four is about young lads enjoying a game of football. Their ball goes over a fence. No one wants to get it. There ...

Crime pays in Thailand. Big time. Corruption and graft is rampant among its power elites. It's mafias, and family crime clans rule. Thai politicians, police, courts and military brass are in their pockets. Preying on foreigners and ripping off their property is one of the lucrative games they play. And if the victim fights back, unpleasant things including serious violence, and death befall them. For Ray Coombs the island of Phuket was paradise. He .married a beautiful girl. He built a beautiful home. Life was perfect. Then the bad men came and took it from him. He fought back. What ...

Mike Villiers was a ten-year-old boy when his father, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Villiers, died with eleven others on a flight from Bangkok that crashed and burned near Saigon in November 1970. A tragic accident they said. Thirty years on Mike comes to believe that it was murder. And he’s looking to find the killers.Thirty years is a long time they tell him. It’s a cold case. The perpetrators will be dead. They tell him to forget about it, and most people would. But Mike’s not a bit like that. He going to Bangkok, the City of Angels and place of his birth with retribution in mind and ...

Eléa ouvre les yeux : ce lit n'est pas le sien. Autour d'elle, cinq autres femmes se réveillent. Une sixième ne se relèvera jamais. Avec horreur, elles réalisent qu'on les retient prisonnières dans cet appartement sans fenêtres. Les armoires sont pleines d'affaires qui viennent de chez elles. Deux trappes leur délivrent nourriture et boissons, ainsi que d'étranges cadeaux... À qui peuvent-elles se fier ? Elles savent qu'on les regarde. Le danger se fait plus présent. Car chacune le sent : il y a quelque chose en elles qui n'est pas normal... Quelque chose qui a changé.

Gabon, 2012. Un mystérieux jet privé atterrit discrètement au sud du pays. Trois ans auparavant, Emma Marsiac, espionne du Mossad, disparaît dans le chaos d'un attentat à Bagdad. Son agent traitant, Julien, est renvoyé à Paris où il retrouve Gabriel, le mari d'Emma, récemment propulsé au cœur d'un scandale politico-financier en tant que directeur adjoint de l'hôpital de Mercœur. Lorsque le directeur général de l'établissement est découvert défenestré, Gabriel est introuvable. Julien soupçonne un lien entre ces événements et l'attaque de Bagdad.

Book #2 in the Thailand Fiction Series - Thailand's Sickest HELL TO PAY is full of non-stop action. You should read book #1 first, it has sold 26,000+ copies! Hell To Pay is the second in the "Thailand's Sickest" series. If you haven't read the first book, you should probably do that. If you want to read them out of order, it's possible, but probably not the best reader experience. Hell To Pay is set in Thailand - Surat, Krabi, Ubon, and Pattaya. Fact and fiction blurs a bit in this story. The author writes from a first-person perspective about events that happened after publishing the ...