Royal Thai Detective Novels: Bangkok Tattoo : A Royal Thai Detective Novel (2) (Series #2) (Paperback)

from sascha

Burdett's style of writing demanded some patience from me because many times I didn't understand what was going on until I got the necessary information 2 or 3 pages later. Not my kind of storytelling. Once you get used to his style of writing though it is quite an entertaining story that revolve...

from Condorena

Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police is quite a character. He is called to investigate the death of an American CIA agent in a seedy hotel room. It was murder and a brutal violent one at that. The murder comes at a time not that long after 9/11 and thus the death of any america...

from cameling

A man is murdered and it appears that Chanya, a bar-girl from a popular bar in Bangkok did it. The man was a CIA agent. Was it self-defence? Was it murder? Are Muslim terrorists from the southern border of Thailand involved? Where do the yakuza come in... or do they? Why is the Chief of Police tr...

from BillPilgrim

This is third book in the Sonchai Jitpleecheep series that I have read. It is really well done. You get the feel of being in Thailand, at various locations - Bangkok, in the South and in the North. The book starts with the murder of an American CIA agent in a hotel in Bangkok, where he had gone w...

from datrappert

Another exotic excursion into Bangkok, but mostly into the mind of Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep. This time he is investigating the murder of a CIA agent who just happens to have been seriously involved with a prostitute that Sonchai himself is deeply in love with. The first few pages start off ...