Books by John Burdett
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review 1: I'm a big fan of this series and how Burdett blends Buddhist philosophy into sordid crime fiction to create an existential head trip. The weirder things get, the better the books are. And this one has plenty of weird. Incestual, homicidal, necrophallic twins? Check. An organ-tra...
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review 1: I loved the voice established by the author. Throughout, the protagonist speaks to the reader. (Assumed to be a non-Thai, a farang, establishing reader as outsider and voyeur to Thai matters both spiritual and material.) The cultural observations and insights are fascinating, th...
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review 1: Like Bangkok Haunts, this one disappointed. Bangkok 8 and Tattoo were fantastic, original stories. Sonchai was an interesting detective and those two stories moved along with creative developments and tidy endings. Haunts was difficult with too much mumbo jumbo thrown into the...
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review 1: The fourth book in John Burdett's Royal Thai Detective series sees protagonist Sonchai Jiptleecheep torn between solving a gruesome crime in Bangkok, brokering a drug deal for his massively corrupt boss, Police Colonel Vikorn, and trying to save his devout Buddhist soul.Reeling f...