john burdett's Bangkok stories

[benedictjjones]

i've read the first two of the three but the third seems a little difficult to pick up, they are:

Bangkok 8
Bangkok Tattoo
Bangkok Haunts

These are the kind of crime books i really like in that they have inventive plots, characters that come alive and very very good writing that trandscends the genre.

i'd recommend these for people who want something a bit different from your average detective story.

[Craig Herbertson]

Not me. I am a bit dull on crime. i read a lot of Agatha Chistie as a boy, Recently Ian Rankine but generally speaking crime just doesn't do it for me (oh except Mallory and Holmes

[benedictjjones]

^i enjoyed rankins short rebus fiction but haven't read any of the novels.

[Craig Herbertson]

I read Rebus for the location - they're well written. I was drinking in the Oford bar a few weeks back. Greta bar. Not a single reference to Rankine anywhere, just good beer and no flashing lights or noise

[benedictjjones]

managed to find '... haunts' in the end =O)