John Burdett

Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep

1 - Bangkok 8 (Jun-2003)
2 - Bangkok Tattoo (May-2005)
3 - Bangkok Haunts (Jun-2007)
4 - The Godfather of Kathmandu (Jan-2010)
5 - Vulture Peak (Jan-2012)
6 - The Bangkok Asset (Aug-2015)

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  A Personal History of Thirst
  

  • Feb-1996
  • / Suspense
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  From former British barrister John Burdett comes a psychosexual novel in the tradition of Damage and Presumed Innocent. At the heart of A Personal History of Thirst is an ill-fated love triangle where all hunger for something and are willing to risk ...

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  The Last Six Million Seconds
  

  • Feb-1997
  • / Suspense
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  It is April 1997, and all of Hong Kong is counting down to July 1, when Britain will hand over rule of the country to China. Public anxiety about the transfer of power is running high, but “Charlie” Chan Siu-kai’s biggest concern is a gruesome ...

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  Bangkok 8
  

  • Jun-2003
  • / Police Procedural
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  Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep - 1
  

  A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world's most exotic cities. Witnessed by a throng of gaping onlookers, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok br...

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  Bangkok Eight
  

  • Jun-2003
  • / Mystery
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  Bangkok Tattoo
  

  • May-2005
  • / Police Procedural
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  Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep - 2
  

  Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police returns in his riveting and smokily atmospheric new thriller. A farang -- a foreigner -- has been murdered, his body horribly mutilated, at the Bangkok brothel co-owned by Sonchai's mother an...

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  Bangkok Haunts
  

  • Jun-2007
  • / Police Procedural
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  Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep - 3
  

  Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the bestsellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo, returns in this blistering novel. Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok's District 8, but...

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  The Godfather of Kathmandu
  

  • Jan-2010
  • / Police Procedural
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  Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep - 4
  

  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 s...

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  Freedom Angel
  

  • Aug-2011
  • / Erotica
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  Vulture Peak
  

  • Jan-2012
  • / Police Procedural
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  Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep - 5
  

  Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact -- more or less -- despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with s...

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  The Bangkok Asset
  

  • Aug-2015
  • / Police Procedural
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  Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep - 6
  

  Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is called to investigate a crime scene in Bangkok -- which quickly reveals itself to be anything but typical. For one thing, the victim has been beheaded in a bizarre manner, and for another, a message...

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  Death Effect
  

  • Apr-2017
  • / General Fiction
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  Doing very bad things for very good reasons…A comic noir short story from John Burdett, international best-selling author of The Bangkok Asset, the most recent novel in the critically-acclaimed Bangkok mystery series.Sheriff Jack Gatt is the least ...

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