Bangkok Haunts

The Sonchai Jitpleecheep Mysteries - Book 3

Bangkok Haunts

By John Burdett
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Spellbinding . . . To conjure Burdett's unique blend of garishness and gravitas, imagine a Conrad novel transformed into a video game . . . Burdett is equally good with male and female characters. His portrayal of Sonchai gains depth with each Bangkok novel, his apprehension of women ever more nuanced . . . [These] characters are scintillating; even more powerful is Burdett's depiction of an economy with prostitution as a fundament . . . Shadowing Sonchai on his trip to the heart of darkness is haunting indeed.
Carlo Wolff, Boston Globe“Bangkok 8 turned out to be such a dazzlingly unusual detective story that I bought 25 copies of the thing and began giving them away. John Burdett is the mastermind behind these cops and robbers tales set in Thailand. This is not the tourist’s Thailand! You won't read anything else like Burdett, nor will you ever escape the spell of his extraordinary Buddhist detective, Sonchai Jitpleecheep . . . Now, happily, he has another one titled Bangkok Haunts . . . Highly recommended.
Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the best sellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo, returns in this blistering novel.Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok's District 8, but nothing like the snuff film he's just been sent anonymously. Furiously fast-paced and laced through with an erotic ghost story that gives a new dark twist to the life of our hero, Bangkok Haunts more than lives up to the smart and darkly funny originality of its predecessors.