A GRIPPING WHODUNNIT FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS.

A crime boss. His wife. His mistress. And a writer stirring up trouble.

“It all began in a hotel cigar bar in Bangkok’s business quarter; studded leather armchairs, thick brass ashtrays and dim, discreet lighting. Vijay had worn his good jeans and a linen shirt he’d ironed that morning. Meanwhile, Khun Pleum in person matched the stolid respectability of his newspaper photos: an unsmiling, well-preserved sixty-something with greying sideburns. He’d arrived in a coral green silk shirt with heavy gold cufflinks and looked every inch the classic old-money patriarch — someone at the lofty heights of a government ministry, or benignly successful in the world of business.

He looked like he’d never killed anyone.”

In a city where people don’t trust the police, Vijay is a man you can turn to for the truth.

When an author is shot in the leg by a masked gunman, everyone thinks the subject of his new book, the notorious Khun Pleum, is responsible.

Bangkok crime boss Pleum hires translator-turned-detective Vijay to help clear his name.

Meanwhile, Pleum’s wife finds out from the book that her husband has a young, beautiful mistress. So, without telling Pleum, she also hires Vijay.

Vijay really needs the money, so he takes on both jobs.

Then the book’s publisher is murdered.

Vijay’s caught in the middle of a very dangerous game. He’ll need to keep his wits about him just to stay alive.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOFFE BOOKS PRIZE FOR CRIME WRITERS OF COLOUR.

Fans of Vaseem Khan, Shamini Flint, Colin Cotterill, Tarquin Hall, Alexander McCall Smith or Gretta Mulrooney will be hooked by this beautifully written addictive mystery set in steamy Bangkok!