Kittling: Books

  First Lines: There were two worlds. There was the real world, where Supot delivered letters for the Royal Thai Mail service, where everyon...

First Lines: " OH-ho," Says the woman at the cash register, looking at the baby formula and the stacks of disposable diapers. ...

First Line: Sergeant Chat had ridden to the crime scene on his personal Honda Dream . Jimm Juree and her brothers Arny and Sissy have f...

Colin Cotterill writes two mystery series that I enjoy very much: the excellent historical series featuring the national coroner of Laos,...

First Line: When the phone rang, Ava woke with a start . Ava Lee works for a mysterious businessman she calls "Uncle." Uncle...

First Line: The frail woman sitting alone below in the courtyard was sad . Nurse ethicist Ladarat Patalung and Detective Wiriya Mookjai...

First Line: The blinds are drawn the way they've been drawn forever, with the inside edges of the slats tilted upward to block his vi...

First Line: " I have come to see you, Khun Ladarat, about a matter of the utmost urgency. " Ladarat Patalung is the nurse eth...

First Line: The dusty braid of Christmas lights in the tiny window has been there for decades and has been plugged in all year round . ...

First Line: As one of the last survivors of my battalion of the Gordon Highlanders, the majority of whom were either killed or captured b...

First Line: The river is wider than it should be and it's the wrong color . Poke Rafferty's thirteen-year-old adopted daughter ...

First Line: I write . Jimm Juree still misses the bright lights of Chiang Mai. Forced to move with her family to the dilapidated Gulf B...

First Line: " Grandad? " Jimm Juree was well on her way to becoming the primary crime reporter for a major Thai newspaper, bu...

First Line: Two two-gallon cans of paint weigh about five times as much as he'd thought they would . Rose and Miaow are out of town...

Title: Killed at the Whim of a Hat Author: Colin Cotterill ISBN: 9780312564537 Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2011 Hardcover, 384 pages Gen...

Title: A Nail Through the Heart Author: Timothy Hallinan ISBN: 9780061257223 Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 2008 Paperback, 352 pages ...

Title: Bangkok Haunts Author: John Burdett ISBN: 978-0-593-05544-1, Bantam Press, 2007 Genre: Police Procedural, #3 Sonchai Jitpleecheep mys...