Poke Rafferty Mystery (4 books in series)
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review 1: Poke helps his cop buddy with a poker sting and ends up in a gamble that threatens his family. The richest self made man in Thailand loses a bet and Poke gets to write his bio. However, Poke's family is soon threatened by competing forces who don't want the book published. Then h...
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review 1: This series just keeps getting better. Not a traditional mystery protagonist by any means but engaging characters and compelling stories make you want to come back for more. And, if you have an interest in Thai culture all the better. Perhaps not as in depth an immersion in Th...
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review 1: Enjoy Timothy Hallinan as an artist - whichever series I'm reading. This is a Poke Rafferty story - and I stayed up most of the night reading it. Poke gets involved in the death of a man he does not know but whose death really impacts Poke's life. He spends most of the book tr...
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review 1: This is an exceptional novel, certainly deserving its Edgar nomination. Timothy Hallinan writes with a graceful ease that makes Queen of Patpong highly readable. Within a short time, Thailand literally popped off the pages. Hallinan articulated both rural and urban Thailand, v...