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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

Thais is not a regular woman. She's 38 but her mind is settled in much earlier years. Her family died in a car accident, but she adopted a new one. Thais is a hoarder and works in an apartment building as a cleaning lady, hating all the residents. And she will do anything, anything at all, for a certain man in her life, for a man who said she was beautiful, Timur Ozin.

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.

Mais de uma década antes, em 1977, eles eram apenas quatro jovens inquietos, acompanhados de um simpático cachorro, quando foram até o lago da cidade de Blyton Hills para desvendar um mistério. Em vez de monstros assustadores e espíritos vingativos, o Clube dos Detetives de Blyton, como eles se intitulavam, descobriu que tudo não passava da tramoia de um criminoso fantasiado. Mas o que eles viram e ouviram naquele dia jamais deixa de aterrorizá-los.

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.

Un quadre de Ramon Casas que no és el que sembla, empleats fidels que amaguen secrets, una estafa milionària en què fins i tot hi ha implicats alts càrrecs... El nou cas de l'investigador Nil Barral té tots els elements per mantenir-nos en alerta fins que el detectiu resolgui el misteri. Nil Barral comptarà, com sempre, amb l'ajut de la seva secretària Rita i el suport i comprensió del seu estimat Nèstor, que aquesta vegada li farà un bon ensurt sense voler.

Stockholm. Des corps figés dans la glace. La police impuissante. Les soupçons se tournent vers l'entourage d'Ellie... Ellie James, une journaliste d'investigation Londonienne qui a tout quitté pour rejoindre Johan en Suède, tente de recoller les morceaux de sa relation avec lui après qu'elle a révélé que sa meilleure amie était une tueuse en série. Quand des corps commencent à apparaître dans les rues de Stockholm, figés, posés comme des statues de glace et morts dans des circonstances étranges, l'ombre de l'affaire ressurgit.

Une nouvelle vie parfaite à Stockholm. Un homme parfait. Un cadavre sur la plage... Ellie James, une jeune journaliste d'investigation, abandonne sa vie à Londres pour s'installer en Suède avec l'homme de ses rêves lorsqu'elle tombe sur les restes d'un squelette en décomposition en pleine fête du Midsommar.