Book Description The Godfather of Kathmandu (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by John Burdett John Burdett’s famed Royal Thai detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is put to the test both as a Buddhist and as a cop as he confronts the most shocking crime of his career. A rich American film director has been murdered. It is an intriguing case, and [...]
Book Description Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett In Burdett’s brilliantly cynical mystery thriller, the follow-up to Bangkok 8 (2004), Royal Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is called in by his supervisor, hard-bitten Captain Vikorn, to investigate the murder of a CIA operative, Mitch Turner, found disemboweled and mutilated. The prime suspect is a beautiful bar [...]
Book Description Bangkok 8 by John Burdett Bangkok 8 is a detective novel with a whole different flavor, thanks to the unique outlook and philosophy of it’s main character. Half Thai, half farang, and the son of an upwardly-mobile prostitute, Detective Jitpleecheep is the quirkiest detective I’ve come across before. If I were to try to describe [...]
Book Description Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett Bangkok Haunts brings back Thai detective and devout Buddhist, Sonchai Jitpleecheep, first introduced in John Burdett’s Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo. Sonchai gets a video tape in the mail that shows a snuff film, and the woman being murdered is one of his past lovers, Damrong. As Sonchai [...]