'Killing customers just isn't good for business...'

In Disctrict 8, the underbelly of Bangkok's crime world, a dramatically mutilated body is found in a hotel bedroom. It looks bad.

It gets worse for Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep when the self-confessed murderer is Chanya, the most successful 'working girl' at The Old Man's Club, a brothel owned jointly by Sonchai's mother and his boss, Police colonel Vikorn.

And it gets deadly when Sonchai, in an effort to get at the bizarre truth, is forced to run the gamut of Bangkok's drug-dealers, prostitutes, bad cops, even worse military generals, and the pitfalls of his own melting heart.

'Like no other novel that's come my way lately. Ironic, sexy and trailing an odour that reminds me of a Bangkok street after hours... Expect to be enlightened' Literary Review

'Open Bangkok Tattoo and you will read on and on, with wide-eyed fascination, some horror or disgust, and considerable delight' Washington Post