Thai Died... Murder in Paradise, Thai Died...Bar Girl, Thai dead..... lawyers guns and money

On the Paradise Island of Koh Samui, a young English girl’s body is found posed looking out to sea on Bophut Beach. Her throat has been cut to near decapitation and Police Lieutenant Chai Son Sinuan of the Royal Thailand Police is handed the toughest murder case of his career. At the same time, Covid-19 has devastated Koh Samui’s and Thailand’s tourist industry and the government is putting pressure on Son to solve the case to save face with the international community. Son is in a race against time to solve the murder, but with most businesses, hotels, massage parlours, restaurants and bars now closed and with many potential witnesses having already left the island to return to their home countries or provinces around Thailand there are very few leads to follow. The investigation takes Son to Ko Pha-Ngan and to the Island of Phuket and then back to Koh Samui as he untangles a crime with links back to the notorious gangsters the Kray twins the most feared, most ruthless gangsters in London during the 1950s and 1960s.

THAI DIED...BAR GIRL…BOOK 2 IN THE THAI DIED BOOK SERIES.

On the tropical island of Koh Samui, a bar girl has gone missing. The granddaughter of a high ranking General with connections to the upper echelons of the Thai army government has also gone missing and Police Lieutenant Chai Son Sinuan of the Royal Thailand Police, an incorruptible policeman in a police force that is deeply rooted in corruption is assigned the case. As Son starts his investigation the bar girl’s mutilated body is found and then two more bar girls go missing. To make matters worse a German resident of Koh Samui, who is the younger brother of a government minister in the Christian Democratic Union party in the German Bundestag went for his usual afternoon bike ride two days before and he has not been seen since. As Son learns more about the missing German and the general’s granddaughter, he is convinced that the investigations are connected. The clock is ticking and Son is in a race against time to solve the crimes before the killer strikes again. The story takes the reader to the hard-core red light districts of Koh Samui, where girls from poor villages in rural areas of Thailand come to work in the lady bars to try to support their families by selling themselves to the “farang” who come from all corners of the world to take full advantage of the girl’s troubled lives.

LAWYERS GUNS AND MONEY…BOOK 3 IN THE THAI DIED BOOK SERIES.

On the tranquil shores of Crystal Bay on the tropical island of Koh Samui, a woman's body floats to shore on the afternoon tide. Unnoticed, she drifts close to the many tourists taking advantage of the tepid water to try to cool down in the hot mid-afternoon sun. She is naked except for a Buddhist amulet around one of her wrists and a silk scarf tied tightly around her neck and she has distinctive Sak Yant tattoos down her back. It looked like a straightforward case of a bar girl taking the wrong customer home for the night until a phone call to the police station from an expat husband in Bangkok saying that his wife a high-profile prosecutor had not been answering her phone since the previous evening and that he had contacted the management at their holiday home on the island to check on her when he had entered the house he found an overturned coffee table drops of blood on the broken glass but no sign of his wife. After the woman's body is identified as the missing prosecutor, it comes to light that she was building a case against a Russian drug cartel boss operating out of Phuket with links to the Asian underworld. Knowing that his best investigator had been banished to Koh Phangan, Colonel Saetang recalls Lieutenant Chai Son Sinuan from his exile back to Koh Samui to try to solve the case.