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Behind the Night Bazaar

Behind the Night Bazaar: Jayne Keeney PI in Chiang Mai

Jayne Keeney Novels, Book One

Angela Savage

  • awardWinner, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript
  • Jayne followed Didier into the Night Bazaar, a concrete building that could pass for an underground carpark. As they zigzagged along aisles laden with clothing and souvenirs she wondered who created the demand for stuffed cobras wrestling with mongooses, scorpions in glass boxes and metre-long wooden penises. She paused briefly to feel the fabric of a crimson and black sarong: one hundred per cent polyester.

    Thirty-something Australian Jayne Keeney works as a PI in Bangkok. Shaken by a serious incident, she heads north to visit her close friend Didier in Chiang Mai, though there’s no relief for her there. Murder is in the air and the police, led by Lieutenant Colonel Ratratarn, have no interest in justice. But Jayne does. With some help from Arthur Conan Doyle she digs deep—past the tacky glamour of the city’s clubs and bars, arrogant expats, corrupt officials, and a steamy affair—to find out just what happened behind the Night Bazaar.

    Angela Savage has brought the streets of Thailand vividly to life. In Jayne Keeney she has created a gutsy heroine. This is an unforgettable debut novel and the start of an exciting new series.

    Angela Savage
    About the Author

    Angela Savage is a Melbourne-based crime writer, who has lived and travelled extensively in Asia. Her first novel, Behind the Night Bazaar, won the 2004 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. She is a winner of the Scarlett Stiletto Award and has twice been shortlisted for Ned Kelly awards.

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    Extent:
    304pp
    Format:
    Paperback
    Text publication date:
    5 June 2006
    ISBN:
    9781921145223
    AU Price:
    $23.95
    NZ Price:
    $29.00
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    andBehind the Night Bazaar

    ‘Coolly elegant with a lovely sense of place, Savage directs her authorial tuk-tuk into the literary precinct without sacrificing the requisite violence, corrupt police, edgy social commentary and the need for her heroine to become a lonely social crusader in the best hard-boiled tradition.’

    ‘Taut, edgy and vividly realised, Night Bazaar delivers the ironies and moral complexities of the best crime thrillers.’

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      ISBN: 9781921834714
      30 January 2012
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