Pumped for Murder by Elaine Viets
Isaan. Northeast Thailand. The furthest reaches of Old Siam. No coastline; no glistening lengths of powdery white sand; no Pad Thai-obsessed tourists; no touts; no taxis; no beggars; no hedonistic nights of extreme debauchery. Nothing. Just a whole lot of jungle. During a visit to Bangkok, I once saw a rack of t-shirts proclaiming that 'good guys go to heaven and bad guys go to Pattaya'. Nothing for Isaan though. After all, who wants to walk around with 'the clinically stupid' emblazoned across their chest? I first visited Northeast Thailand in my late twenties. Initially I was appalled by the lack of, well, anything. For a chap hailing from suburban London it felt like I'd alighted into a particularly tedious episode of the Archers. However, the people, the fauna, and indeed the flora, made this impromptu sabbatical a quite extraordinary experience. The stories on the following pages are an account of my years spent in hot and sticky rural Siam.Elaine Viets, like her heroine Helen Hawthorne, has worked several of the dead-end jobs in her mystery novels. She's also the author of the Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper series, as well as a number of short stories. Elaine has received both an Anthony and an Agatha Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780451235053 |
| ISBN 10 | 0451235053 |
| Title | Pumped for Murder |
| Author | Elaine Viets |
| Series | Dead-End Job Mysteries |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Obsidian Mysteries |
| Year published | 2012-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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