Thailand Mystery

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 ...

Police investigator Dan Porter returns in ORIENTAL ILLUSIONS, a suspenseful crime-fiction thriller set in Southeast Asia, the riveting sequel to James Keegan's bestselling debut, THE CUMAL FILES.IN THE MYSTERIOUS ORIENT, NOTHING AND NO-ONE ARE AS THEY SEEM...Disillusioned with his State Police career after dismantling a global sex-slave network with the Dragon Slayer taskforce, Dan Porter joins the newly-formed Interpol unit in Sydney. When multiple young backpackers vanish from Southeast Asia he’s sent to Bangkok and entrusted with the difficult task of finding them.He joins the 'Lost ...

Awakening on an unfamiliar boat amidst strangers, a young woman's dream vacation becomes a harrowing ordeal, setting off a chain of events that threatens to peel away the island's serene veneer. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Such a great cozy! I am really enjoying the series. There are Thai recipes at the end of the book. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I always know who it is in mysteries, but the story was woven altogether so well that I did not guess. Harry Sinclair, an intrepid travel blogger with a zest for culinary discoveries, finds her peaceful escape turned on its head when a night of revelry at a foam party ...

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 ...

The fourth in the series of John Peters Mystery Thrillers. Following on Operation Black Amphora, the search for the tomb of Alexander the Great, the Devil's Dagger, preventing a global virus disaster and Treasures of the Deep, searching for lost treasures on sunken ships and preventing an ecological disaster, John, his wife Liz and their friends Harry and Meg, Nicos and Maria as well as Fred and Angelique James are off on another adventure this time in the Pacific and confronting old enemies.

A peaceful yoga retreat spirals into danger when a killer sets a deadly trap and hidden secrets surface. Harry Sinclair, a travel blogger and a foodie, digs deep into the guests’ lives to find out the motive. Could this assembly of complete strangers share a secret past? ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The mystery itself left me guessing. I kept changing my mind about who the culprit could be, and was surprised at the end, but it all fit nicely. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Page burner mystery! The suspense stayed whole up to the big reveal and I actually feel disappointed with myself for not having guessed who the ...

One chance encounter can change everything. Erin receives a phone call informing her of an unexpected inheritence from a man she barely remembers meeting at Bangkok Airport a year prior. The man, a wealthy sapphire dealer, left her everything. As Erin travels to America to claim her inheritence, she discovers that his death might not have been an accident. Someone wanted him silenced, and now, they’re coming after her. Trapped in a web of secrets, she realises she has inherited more than just his fortune, she has inherited his enemies. With no one to trust and danger closing in, Erin must...

The electrifying sequel to THE OPENER! Don Rouse is young, rich, happily married and lives the life of a jet-setting expatriate in Southeast Asia. He also happens to be a master con artist, a manipulative swindler who controls a fictitious firm that convinces unsuspecting clients to place all their money into bogus investment opportunities. Aided by corrupt government officials, crooked cops, and unscrupulous bankers, Don lives a whimsical life of leisure and luxury with his alluring wife Jessica. When a mundane business meeting suddenly turns deadly, Don must use all of his cunning and ...

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.

Abandoning a recession-plagued America for the easy money of Southeast Asia's lucrative but highly illegal investment scam industry, Don Rouse must navigate through a sordid world of drug addicts, deviants, prostitutes and professional con men in order to achieve his lifelong dream of making it big. But his world is suddenly turned upside down when the police show up and his boss goes missing. After a chance meeting with the alluring but enigmatic Jessica, Don is plunged into a high stakes mystery that could very well put an end to his criminal career and perhaps even his life. From the ...

When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, working for one of Thailand's English-language newspapers. One evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story. A charismatic American anthropologist has been found dead, a suicide, in the Thai prison where she was serving a 50-year sentence for murder. Motivated first by simple curiosity, then by deeper and more mysterious feelings, Mischa searches relentlessly to discover the details of her crime.

Having retired as a prima ballerina for the London Royal Ballet Company, Danni Sinclair becomes the CEO of Peterson Enterprises and her husband, Lord James Sinclair, became its President. Danni's father David having suffered a minor stroke he felt it was time to turn the company over to Danni and James. The Narrowboat building company that Danni and James fathers had started as a hobby was expanding rapidly and a boat show was arranged in Thailand to consider expanding into Asia. But as usual things did not go as planned. .

After dumping her boorish boyfriend, Madeleine LeMesurier takes a break from her job at a Hong Kong-based detective agency and signs up for a scuba diving holiday in Thailand. Despite the presence of hunky Australian investment banker Robert Maine on the dive boat, the vacation turns out far from idyllic when a series of strange accidents, a missing diver, and a baffling death occur. It seems not everyone on the boat is who they claim to be.

You walk across white sand towards the sparkling ocean. You’re leading a group to scuba dive in some of the most beautiful waters on earth, an experience that will stay with you forever. But twenty minutes later, one diver is dead, another critically injured, and your life is in immediate danger.

Red Herring James Cartwright a British businessman posted missing for months is discovered alone, disorientated and confused living in a simple apartment in a run down part of Udon Thani in the Northeast of Thailand. A case for celebration perhaps... it should be. The snag is the Police find him when they respond to the death of a young woman who has just plunged six floors from his apartment window. Is it an accident, suicide or murder? This is the question that the Police want answered ... but James has no answers, none at all, he has lost his tongue or his mind, for he thinks he's five ...

Escaping New York for the anonymity of Bangkok, Sarah Mullins arrives in Thailand with a suitcase of money and a deception she holds close to her chest. Her plan is to lie low and map out her next move in a high-end apartment complex called the Kingdom, whose glass-fronted façade boasts views of the bustling city and glimpses into the vast honeycomb of lives within. It is not long before she meets the alluring Mali, doing laps in the apartment pool, a half-Thai tenant determined to bring the quiet American out of her shell.

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.

Jimm Juree, Mitte dreißig und Kriminalreporterin bei einer thailändischen Zeitung, lebt mit ihrer gesamten exzentrischen Familie unter einem Dach...

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 ...

Temporarily retired from the GPF - Global Protection Force - and on family vacation, Jack Stalwart and his older brother, Max, are motivated to act when a band of thieves takes the Emerald Buddha from the Grand Palace in Bangkok. Without the help of the GPF, they're on their own. They're also up against one of the smartest and wealthiest villains they've ever faced. Can Jack and Max find Thailand's most precious statue before it's too late?