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Jimm Juree mysteries volume 2
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Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach is the second Jimm Juree Mystery from award-winning author Colin Cotterill.
In rural Thailand, former crime reporter Jimm Juree must grapple with her quirky family, a mysterious mother and daughter on the lam and the small matter of a head on the beach ...
When Jimm Juree's mother sold the family house and invested in a rundown 'holiday camp' at the southern end of Thailand on the Gulf of Siam, the family had...
Author
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation.
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Series
Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Finding himself embracing domestic life in Bangkok in spite of his love for adventurous travel, writer Poke Rafferty has his world thrown into turmoil by a troubled homeless youth, a distraught woman's missing uncle, and a blackmailing thief.
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Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
The quiet Bangkok family life of American travel-writer Poke Rafferty, wife Rose, and daughter Miaow is threatened when a man from Rose's past forces Poke to uncover the whole truth about his wife's former life in a red-light district.
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Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 25 cm.
10) Bangkok tattoo
Author
Series
Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When the mutilated body of a CIA agent is discovered in District 8 and the killer appears to be a local working girl, Sonchai searches for the truth amid a cover-up orchestrated by his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn.
11) Vulture peak
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Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
285 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep organizes a massive sting operation to end human organ trafficking in Thailand, an effort that is complicated by an aging rock star with liver disease and rumors about Sonchai's ex-prostitute wife.
12) For the dead
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Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Poke Rafferty is happier than he's ever been. He's financially solvent, his family is about to grow larger, and his adopted Thai daughter, Miaow, seems to have settled in at junior high school. All that is endangered when Miaow and her boyfriend, Andrew, buy a stolen iPhone from a shady vendor and discover photographs of two dead police officers on it--disgraced officers, violently murdered to avenge the long-dead. Surrounding the murder investigation...
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Series
Vincent Calvino mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Description
A disbarred lawyer making a precarious living as a private investigator in Bangkok, Vincent Calvino is about to close the books on a major drug piracy ring, until his client dies of a heart attack and he stumbles upon the body of a massage girl.
Author
Series
Jimm Juree mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
374 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
Forced to relocate to rural Thailand with her eccentric family, crime reporter Jimm Juree fears that her career is over until the bodies of two hippies are discovered in a local farmer's field and a Buddhist abbot is murdered, a case that implicates a monk and a nun.
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Series
Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Sonchai Jitpleecheep--John Burdett's inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soul--is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama based in Kathmandu who has become his guru--and has forty million dollars' worth of heroin for sale.
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Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
266 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Bangkok is celebrating Chinese New Year when Calvino's revels are cut short. The body of an American has been fished out of the lake in Lumpini Park. Around his neck are a string of wooden amulets, the kind upcountry Thais wear to protect themselves from evil spirits.
17) Cockroaches
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Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and Harry has been sent to investigate. It's clear that the ambassador's family are hiding some secrets of their own, but few people are willing to talk.
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Publisher
Entangled Teen
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It looks like paradise…only it’s not. This was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime family trip to Thailand. One last wish for my dying mama. Instead, we’re stranded on a lush, stunning island with ten strangers—held captive as Thai mythology unfolds around us…and within us. Now we’re being tested. We’re expected to face our greatest fears—and possible deaths—in hopes of awakening some...
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"Five years ago, Cass barely survived a brutal attack that left her family dead. Now a scuba diving instructor in Thailand, she has spent years trying to build a new, anonymous life for herself as one of the Permanents, a group of expats who have claimedthe beautiful Thailand destination as their own. The permanents are charming, they're close-knit, and they don't linger on who they were before the island--they're the perfect group for Cass to finally...
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