The plot in ‘Bangkok Haunts’ revolves around the big business of
international pornography. He even includes an appendix in the form of a
New York Times article that talks about how the biggest distributors of
pornography are GM and Marriot Hotels. As Sonchai and Kimberley, the
“hormone haunted manhunter” who has since become sadder and wiser, track
the origin of the movie, Sonchai’s superior in the Royal Thai Police
force decides to enter the biz himself. Burdett has a delightful time
upending just about every mystery trope and tradition you can imagine in
‘Bangkok Haunts’. The cops are robbers and the forensic bombshells
involve ghosts. Mystery fans who like their locations exotic and their
action unusual will find great satisfaction.

Both ghosts and humor play a bigger role than in the previous Sonchai
Jitpleecheep novels. The humor often spins from the language that
Burdett gets out of his Buddhist protagonist. Sonchai’s vision of the
world is a matter-of-fact inversion of Western views, and the results
are consistently hilarious, even if they’re often simultaneously quite
grotesque.

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