The Inspector Samuel Tay Novels
The seventh title in the Inspector Tay series -- WHO THE HELL IS HARRY BLACK? -- was the winner of the Barry Award for BEST ORIGINAL PAPERBACK MYSTERY NOVEL OF 2024.
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Titles from the Inspector Tay series have three times been finalists for the Barry Award, and once for the Ebook Thriller of the Year awarded by the International Thriller Writers.
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"Jake Needham is Asia's most stylish and atmospheric writer of crime fiction"
-- The Singapore Straits Times
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They steer a tight ship in squeaky-clean Singapore. No dissent, no opposition, no criticism. Disneyland with the death penalty, somebody once called it.
Samuel Tay has worked almost his entire life as a senior homicide detective in Singapore CID. He's a little overweight, a little lonely, a little cranky, and he smokes way too much, but he’s the best investigator anyone there has ever seen.
Problem is, the senior officers of CID don’t much like Tay. His father was an American and there’s something about Tay now that’s just a little too American for most Singaporeans.
Tay knows they’ll get him someday and eventually they do, but that’s when a whole new world of possibilities opens up for Samuel Tay.
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The Inspector Tay novels are available in both ebook and trade paperback editions exclusively at all Amazon stores worldwide. They are also available to read through Amazon's Kindle Unlimited program.
You will find the most recent Inspector Tay title — GOODBYE, MR. BOOGIE — on Amazon's US store RIGHT HERE.
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The Jack Shepherd Novels
"Jack Shepherd is a delight, a sharp-witted lawyer with a drive for justice, forced to reside in a world of hard men who don’t believe in the rule of law."
– The Malaysian Star
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Jack Shepherd was once a high-flying Washington lawyer, a member of the innermost circles of American political power, and a man acclaimed for his ability to detect and stop international money laundering.
When he got sick of politics, sick of corporate law, and even a little sick of himself, he abandoned Washington and hit the road looking for a new start. The first place he ended up was the lethargic backwater of Bangkok, where he became a business school professor at one of Thailand’s most prestigious universities. That worked out pretty well… until he pissed off the wrong people.
Now Shepherd lives in Hong Kong, in a borrowed apartment, and works by himself. From his little unmarked office on Hollywood Road, he works quietly to solve the problems his big-money clients don’t want anyone else to know they have.
Shepherd is the kind of lawyer people call a troubleshooter. At least that’s what they call him when they’re being polite. He’s the guy people go to when they have a problem too ugly to tell anyone else about. Shepherd locates your trouble, and then he shoots it.
Neat, huh? As if his life were only that simple.
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The Jack Shepherd novels are available in both ebook and trade paperback editions exclusively at all Amazon stores worldwide. They are also available to read through Amazon's Kindle Unlimited program.
You will find the most recently published Jack Shepherd novel, THE NINETEEN, on Amazon's US store RIGHT HERE.
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THE Other Novels
"THE BIG MANGO is a classic!"
-- Crime Reads
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"There's no room for improvement. THE BIG MANGO is as good as it gets."
-- The Bangkok Post
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$400 million is in the wind, ten tons of cash, the result of a bungled CIA operation to grab all the foreign currency from the Bank of Vietnam when the Americans fled Saigon in 1975.
A few decades later, the word on the street is that all that money somehow ended up in Bangkok and a downwardly mobile lawyer from California named Eddie Dare is the only guy left alive who might still have a shot at finding it.
Eddie knows nothing about the missing money. At least, he doesn’t think he does. But so many people claim he’s got an inside track that he and an old marine buddy named Winnebago Jones decide to head for Bangkok anyway and do a little treasure hunting. What do they have to lose, huh?
Their lives, as it turns out. When they plunge into the jagged netherworld of modern-day Thailand, it doesn’t take long for things to get weird.
From the Big Apple, to the Big Orange, to the Big Mango. You have to admit it has a kind of nutty logic to it. Bangkok is about as far from California as Eddie can go without sailing completely over the edge of the world.
Although, at times, he wonders if that isn’t exactly what he has done.
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THE BIG MANGO is available in both ebook and paperback editions at all Amazon stores worldwide. On Amazon's US store, you can find it RIGHT HERE.
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