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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 ...

In Bangkok, everyone gets the chance to start over. Few questions are asked. When American criminal defense lawyer Glenn Murray Cohen took a bundle of cash from a murdered client and moved to Thailand and a new life, he thought his troubles were over. For seven years, Glenn enjoys the life of a wealthy expat, forms friendships and seeks love, spending much of his time at the mysterious NJA Club where he pursues the beautiful Noi. This pleasant life is turned upside down when American agents come calling, pressuring him to kidnap a Russian gangster, a dangerous task for which he is woefully ...

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.

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 ...

A year after US expat lawyer Glenn Murray Cohen helped drive the Brooklyn Mafia out of Bangkok, he expected to spend the rest of his life as a refined and affluent hedonist. His new NJA Club friends, Michel and Jing, share Glenn's love of French cinema, good coffee, and strong weed. Then Glenn realizes that he really does not know anything about Michel, and when he asks questions, he is followed by a scary-looking fellow, seduced by Jing, and warned that his life is in danger. The NJA Club gang comes to Glenn's aid, as they struggle to make sense out of a series of seemingly disconnected ...

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...

Seit Jimm Juree mit ihrer schrägen Sippe in das Küstendorf Maprao im Süden Thailands übergesiedelt ist, vermisst sie die Lichter der Stadt. Am meisten aber vermisst sie ihre Karriere als Reporterin. Schweren Herzens muss sie nun mit Aufträgen für das kleine Lokalblatt vorliebnehmen. Ihr aktueller Job: den Engländer Conrad Coralbank interviewen, seines Zeichens Autor erfolgreicher Kriminalromane. Kurz darauf verschwinden plötzlich mehrere Frauen, unter ihnen auch Coralbanks Gattin. Und plötzlich hat Jimm es nicht nur mit Vermisstenfällen und einem potenziellen Serienkiller zu tun, sondern auch mit einem kapitalen Sturm, der direkt auf Maprao zusteuert.

Kriminalreporterin Jimm Juree leidet unter Provinzblues. Nachdem ihre Mutter die fragwürdige Idee hatte, ein renovierungsbedürftiges Hotel zu kaufen, lebt die exzentrische Sippe in einem verschlafenen Nest - und Jimm sieht ihre Karrierechancen schwinden. Doch eines Morgens schlagen Jimms Hunde beim Gassigehen Alarm: Irgendein Strandgut ist äußerst interessant, nur leider zu groß zum Apportieren.

Oktober 2001. Im thailändischen Küstenstädtchen Hua Hin wird ein prominentes Politikerehepaar ermordet. Schnell fällt der Verdacht auf Suzan, die Tochter der Opfer, und ihren Freund, den deutschen Diplomatensohn Sven Luring. Der Achtzehnjährige gesteht das Verbrechen, widerruft sein Geständnis bei Prozessbeginn und wird dennoch zum Tod verurteilt. Dann bietet er dem Journalisten Max Weiden die Rechte an seinen Tagebüchern an. Weidens Recherchen verstärken seine Zweifel an Lurings Schuld.