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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Nong May and her family have had a lot of bad luck lately. When nine-year-old Jess arrives in Thailand and accidentally breaks a special family treasure, it seems to only get worse. It turns out the treasure holds a secret that could change things forever.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.