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Author
Series
Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police investigates the brutal murder of a CIA agent. The investigation becomes complicated when he learns that the suspect is Chanya a tough, sweet working girl who is employed at the gentleman's club owned by Sonchai's mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn.
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Heaven Lake Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Calvino investigates the death of a friend, a Canadian painter. The medical examiner finds the young man has ingested an exit drug, and the police verdict of suicide seems justified. But in Bangkok appearances have a habit of deceiving. Sometimes jumpers are given a leg up in their leap to the next life. Fingering the helper can be a risky business, and for Calvino this promises to be one of those times.
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino volume 5
Publisher
Heaven Lake Press
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful American blond is found dead with a large bullet hole in her head in the house of her ex-boyfriend. A famous Hollywood screen-writer hires Calvino to investigate her death. Everyone except Calvino’s client believes Samantha McNeal has committed suicide. In the early days of the Internet, Sam ran with a young and wild ex-pat crowd in Bangkok. As Calvino slides into a world where people are dead serious about sex, money and fame, he unearths...
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Heaven Lake Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's okay for Thais to believe in ghosts--it's their birthright. But why is Vincent Calvino seeing ghosts, and why are they so angry? Calvino is haunted by a series of deaths in Rangoon and Bangkok, when he stumbles onto a new murder case--but is it a new case, or an old one returned from the dead? A murder investigation leads Calvino inside an underworld network smuggling Rohingya out of illegal camps and detention centers. Calvino looks for the...
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino volume 11
Publisher
Heaven Lake Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
466 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hired by an American businessman, Calvino finds himself caught in the middle of a family conflict over a Chinese corporate takeover. This is no ordinary deal. Calvino and his client are up against powerful forces set to seize much more than a family business. As the bodies accumulate while he navigates Thailand’s business-political landmines, Calvino becomes increasingly entangled in a secret deal made by men who will stop at nothing—and no one—standing...
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Heaven Lake Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
297 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A contemporary murder set in Bangkok—a neighbor and friend, a young ex-hooker turned artist, is found dead by an American millionaire’s minor wife. Her rich expat husband hires Calvino to investigate. While searching for the killer in exclusive clubs and not-so-exclusive bars of Bangkok, Calvino discovers that a minor wife—mia noi—has everything to do with a woman’s status. From illegal cock fighting matches to elite Bangkok golf clubs,...
7) Bangkok 8
Author
Series
Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
317 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a U.S. Marine is killed in Bangkok, the task of finding the murderer falls to Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, seemingly the only member of the Royal Thai Police Force whose idea of justice precludes his fellow officers' customary system of bribery. This assignment's especially important to the devout detective for during the investigation of the murder scene, the methamphetamine-stoked snakes that bit the marine also kill Sonchai's police partner,...
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino volume 8
Publisher
Heaven Lake Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
297 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inside a secluded, lush estate located on the edge of Pattaya, an eccentric English-man’s gardener is found hanged. Calvino has been hired to investigate. Calvino finds himself pulled deep into the shadows of the war against drugs, into Code Orange alerts to flash across the screen of American intelligence. In a story packed with twists and turns, Calvino traces the links from the gardener’s past to the door of men with power and influence who...
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino volume 6
Publisher
Heaven Lake Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
439 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five foreigners have died in Bangkok. Were they drug overdose victims or victims of a serial killer? Calvino believes the evidence points to a serial killer who stalks tourists in Bangkok. The Thai police, including Colonel Pratt, don't buy his theory. Calvino teams up with an LAPD officer on a bodyguard assignment. Hidden forces pull them through swank shopping malls, rundown hotels, Klong Toey slum, and bars in the redlight district as they try...
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Heaven Lake Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
365 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A priceless collection of 9 gold bullet coins issued during the Reign of Rama V has gone missing along with a Thai coin collector. Local police find a link between the missing Thai coins and Calvino's childhood friend, Josh Stein, who happens to be in Bangkok on an errand for his new Russian client. This old friend and his personal and business entanglements with the Russian underworld take Calvino back to New York, along with Pratt.
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Heaven Lake Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Crackdown visual art becomes a powerful take down tool to push back against the oligarchs. People adjust to the surveillance state and its agents who are emergent forces. Post-coup Thailand is the setting as high tech competes with traditional power in a battle for hearts and minds. It is a noir landscape where Calvino finds himself ambushed as casualties from this battle leave behind a mystery or two. Calvino enters a world of ancient maps, political...
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino volume 4
Publisher
Heaven Lake Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, Vietnam is opening to the outside world. There is a smell of fast money in the air and poverty in the streets. Business is booming and in austere Ho Chi Minh City a new generation of foreigners have arrived to make money and not war. Against the backdrop of Vietnam’s economic miracle, Comfort Zone reveals a a divided people still not reconciled with their past and unsure of their future. Calvino is...
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Grove/Atlantic
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Calvino agrees to follow the 'minor wife' of a Thai politician and report on her movements. His client is Rick Casey, a shady American whose life has been darkened by the unsolved murder of his idealistic son. It seems to be a simple surveillance job, but soon Calvino is entangled in a dangerous web of political allegiance and a reckless quest for revenge. And, unknown to our man in Bangkok, in an anonymous tower in the center of the city, a two-man...
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino volume 3
Publisher
Heaven Lake Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1990s, at the end of the devastating civil war UN peacekeeping forces try to keep the lid on the violence. Gunfire can still be heard nightly in Phnom Penh, where Vietnamese prostitutes try to hook UN peacekeepers from the balcony of the Lido Bar. Calvino traces leads on a missing farang from Bangkok to war-torn Cambodia, through the Russian market, hospitals, nightclubs, news briefings, and UNTAC Headquarters. Calvino’s buddy, Colonel...
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Physical Desc
ix, 291 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A farang is dead and the Bangkok police have a confession the next morning from a young paint-thinner addict. He claims he killed Ben Hoadly, an expat Brit, but Calvino has his doubts when he sees heavy bruises on the kid's face. In no time Calvino is working both sides, out to find the killer for Hoadly's wealthy father, and eager to clear the addict's name for a beautiful friend who runs a charity in the slums. With the help of his best friend,...
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino volume 13
Publisher
Heaven Lake Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
As foreigners rush into Myanmar with briefcases stuffed with plans and cash for hotels, shopping malls and high rises, they discover the old ways die hard. Vincent Calvino's case is to find a young British-Thai man gone missing in Myanmar, while his best friend and protector Colonel Pratt of the Royal Thai Police has an order to cut off the supply of cold pills from Myanmar used for the methamphetamine trade in Thailand. As one of the most noir novels...
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino volume 2
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
266 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bangkok is celebrating Chinese New Year when Calvino's revels are cut short. The body of an American, an acquaintance of Calvino's, 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. Only rather than saving Hutton, these have killed him. A freelance cameraman scraping by on the margins, Hutton had photographed something shortly before...
18) Vulture peak
Author
Series
Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Police Colonel Vikorn puts Sonchai in charge of the highest profile criminal case in Thailand -- ending trafficking in human organs -- Sonchai suspects his boss of ulterior motives. And, of course, he's right: Vikorn is running for governor of Bangkok, and his American handlers insist that he needs a dramatic crime-fighting success right now. But just as Vikorn predicts, Sonchai's 'goody-two-shoes Buddhist conscience' takes over. The sting operation...
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. But it's work, not pleasure. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and no witnesses have come forward. The ambassador had close ties to the Norwegian prime minister, and to avoid a scandal Harry is sent there to hush up the case. But he quickly discovers that there is much more going on behind the scenes and very few people willing to talk. When Harry lays hands...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Leaving New York for the heat, humidity and anonymity of Bangkok, Sarah arrives in Thailand with the sole desire to lose herself, a stranger in a strange land. Yet she also leaves behind a complicated past, and a deception she holds close to her chest. Taking up a lease at a high-end apartment complex called The Kingdom, she finds herself drawn into the close-knit social circle of three very different, but equally mysterious, ex-pat women: Ximena,...
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