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Title: Neither funny, thrilling or exotic
Review: I wanted to like this but it was ultimately disappointing. I could feel no human connection to any of the characters who were just stereotypes. There was little dramatic drive to the novel. Just read the first couple of chapters and the last couple and save yourself the time. The descriptions of western decadence, Thai and buddhhist culture were shallow. They left a bad taste in my mouth.A very much better series in the same genre is Colin Cotterill's series of mysteries set in Laos - The Coroner's Lunch, Thirty-Three Teeth and Disco for the Damned. The characters in Cotterill's series are people who you care about. The descrriptions of the eastern culture are respectful and loving.
