A Good Death

A first rate mystery beautifully crafted fast-paced and populated with the most vivid (and at times seamy) characters… A bravura debut! --Douglas Preston #1 bestselling co-author of the Pendergast series of novels. A nail-biting debut mystery that plunges readers into the seamy side streets of late-90s Bangkok and across the untamed mountains of the Lao-Vietnam border hot on the heels of an alluring woman whos officially dead – unless shes masterminded a half-million-dollar life-insurance scam. An expertly crafted debut A GOOD DEATH introduces Sebastian Damon a sharp-witted though struggling Boston PI who catches an intriguing case. Linda Watts is a beautiful talented Southeast Asian refugee with a promising career in finance―or she was until she turned up dead the victim of a heroin OD in a cheap Bangkok guest house. Her death seemed straightforward to the Thai authorities but her insurance company isnt buying it. They send Sebastian halfway around the world to investigate―where he finds himself confounded and completely out of place chasing faint leads through the broken bewildering streets of Thailands teeming capital. . An award-winning journalist with decades of experience traveling in and reporting on Southeast Asia Christopher R. Cox takes readers on a vibrant journey through a corrupt police bureaucracy a network of steamy Bangkok nightclubs and grimy hostels to a place where you can you feel the humid air and smell the stir-fried street food. Along the way Sebastian finds romance as he falls for a captivatingly mysterious woman and camaraderie with his fathers wise-cracking old Special Forces wingman -- an expat who can navigate Bangkoks chaotic underbelly and the wild mountains of Laos with equal aplomb. For Sebastian its the assignment of a lifetime a chase that will lead him to a long-buried truth at the heart of all the dark lies a quest that will change him forever in this richly imagined compelling debut perfect for fans of John Burdett.