Bluebeard's Castle

...the J.D. Salinger of Siam<br>--George Axelrod Oscar-winning screenwriter of <I>Breakfast at Tiffany's</I></p><p>S. P. Somtow doesn't write like anybody else...and when he wants to spook you he can drive the chill bone deep.<br>--Dean Koontz</p><p>In an exotic re-telling of the fairytale of Bluebeard a New Age thirty-something is swept off her feet by an enigmatic Thai millionaire and soon finds herself in Bangkok's brave new world of shamans shopping malls and high society serial killers.</p><p>Originally written as a cliff-hanging serial for Bangkok's <I>The Nation</I> newspaper <I>Bluebeard's Castle</I> is a roller-coaster novel that leapfrogs from genre to genre and culture to culture turning the western preconception of Bangkok as a city of temples and prostitutes on its ear. A darkly comic odyssey populated with wild characters with intimate glimpses into a culture rarely written about.</p>