It’s
okay for Thais to believe in ghosts—it’s their birthright.
But why is Vincent Calvino seeing ghosts, and why are they so
angry? Calvino is haunted by a series of deaths in Rangoon and
Bangkok, when he stumbles onto a new murder case—but is
it a new case, or an old one returned from the dead? A murder
investigation leads Calvino inside an underworld network smuggling
Rohingya out of illegal camps and detention centers. Calvino
looks for the killer in the mystical Thai world of sword and
marriage trees.
Praise
“[The
Marriage Tree] will keep the reader up at night, though,
as the action is fast-paced and full of enough twists to foment
insomnia. For readers who loved Missing in Rangoon,
this follow-on book provides something of a final resolution.”
—wowais.com
“The
plight of the Rohingya refugees has been documented many times,
but never dramatised like this.... [W]hen a novelist brings
his powers of description and sense of empathy to bear on such
a subject, the wholehearted tragedy of these crimes against
humanity hits home in a powerful way. The opening is riveting
... The plotting is taut and the pacing sharp.”
—Jim Algie, The
Nation
“The
Marriage Tree is a top tier crime novel set in a top
tier city, Bangkok, to be enjoyed by crime fiction readers
everywhere.”
—Kevin Cummings,
Chiang Mai City News
“For
those who have 'met' Vinny before, you will know what to expect
- a fast, racy and very believable plot with excellent dialogue
and several twists in the tail and set in the Bangkok we all
know, with many recognizable landmarks.”
—Lang Reid, Pattaya Mail