Whodunnit

[DigitalSoldier]

I've the whole collection!

I finished Stalking the Angel(2nd in the series) this week and ordered the rest of the series from bookdepository.com

I am also busy reading: A drink before the way by Dennis Lehane. Its also about a PI with almost the same attitude as Elvis Cole, but instead of LA its in Boston.

 

[MickeyD]

I finished Stalking the Angel(2nd in the series) this week and ordered the rest of the series from bookdepository.com
I am also busy reading: A drink before the way by Dennis Lehane. Its also about a PI with almost the same attitude as Elvis Cole, but instead of LA its in Boston.

Yep, have read a few of his, including Shutter Island and Gone Baby Gone.

 

[Palimino]

Am looking for a recommendation or two, please. It has to be really good and gripping, though! Want it for holiday reading.

Do yourself a favour and avoid the standard ‘hard-boiled’ detective novel. The Dashiell Hammet and Micky Spillaine clones. Go for something different. Try “Bankok Haunts” by John Burdett, ISBN = 9780593055434 (one of several). It is pumped by James Ellroy and Carl Hiaasen and they are both good crime writers. It is about this Buddhist detective protagonist. The protagonist’s name is Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep and his beat is Bankok’s District 8 (the first in the series is called ‘Bankok 8’). His partner is in the middle of a sex change, he runs a brothel part-time with his mom and his boss is corrupt (quite routine in Bankok). He is of mixed race (father = Viet Nam GI, mother = Thai prostitute). Interesting.

 

[MickeyD]

John Sandford

 

[DigitalSoldier]

For a good South African/Cape Town mystery/suspense books I can recommend Deon Meyer.

He writes in Afrikaans, but his books have been translated in over 20 languages.

 

[ponder]

His partner is in the middle of a sex change, he runs a brothel part-time with his mom and his boss is corrupt (quite routine in Bankok). He is of mixed race (father = Viet Nam GI, mother = Thai prostitute). Interesting.

You don't say.

 

[MickeyD]

Here's some more that I have read and collected over the years:

Mark Billingham (Tom Thorne series)
James Lee Burke (Dave Robicheaux series)
Jo Nesbo (Harry Hole series)
Sara Paretski (V.I. Warshawski series)
Craig Russell (Jan Fabel series)

 

[Palimino]

His partner is in the middle of a sex change, he runs a brothel part-time with his mom and his boss is corrupt (quite routine in Bankok). He is of mixed race (father = Viet Nam GI, mother = Thai prostitute).

His partner is in the hormone part of the sex change and moans constantly about tackling baddies with breasts. They hurt in a fracas. They are not yet obvious so the rest of the department doesn’t know about them.

He functions as a ‘bouncer’ and shareholder in his mom’s brothel. He gets stuck on one of the girls occasionally against the advice of his mom (who knows all about prostitution – she was one in her younger days).

He has to juggle the moral aspects of his job against the orders of his corrupt boss who needs to satisfy powerful interest groups. Corruption is so pervasive and routine that it is a part of life and is regarded very differently to the way the West regards it.