6 must-read crime books like Chasing the Dragon: BY NEW BLOOD DAGGER AND SCOTTISH CRIME DEBUT SHORTLISTED AUTHOR (Betancourt Mystery Series Book 2) by Mark Wightman

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Chasing the Dragon: BY NEW BLOOD DAGGER AND SCOTTISH CRIME DEBUT SHORTLISTED AUTHOR (Betancourt Mystery Series Book 2)

By: Mark Wightman

4.25

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

The much-awaited follow up to Waking the Tiger, shortlisted for the 2022 Crime Writers’ Association…

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1. The Magic of Ordinary Days

By: Ann Howard Creel

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Olivia Dunne, a studious minister's daughter who dreams of being an archaeologist, never thought th… read more

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  • historical fiction
"Sometimes you do find what you're looking for closer than you think"

-Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

"As a child, when I first heard the story of Creation, I’d closed my eyes and pictured the earth as a ball rolling off the palm of God and into dark space, then drifting around until it found its home…"

-Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

"In the past, I would’ve listed things such as common interests, mutual attraction, worldliness, and higher education. My freedom above all else. If I had found love, it would have had to be the kind …"

-Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

"We’d save up a penny or two, bring them down here, and set them on the tracks. When a train comes, it flattens out that penny, leaving it thin as paper and shaped long, like an egg. But it happens so…"

-Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

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2. Dragon Seed

By: Pearl S. Buck

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, Dragon Seed brings to light the traged… read more

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  • historical fiction
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3. Thousand Pieces of Gold

By: Ruthanne Lum McCunn

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

A reissue of the classic biographical novel that has sold more than 200,000 copies Lalu Nathoy's fa… read more

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  • historical fiction

4. Daughters of the Dragon

By: William Andrews

4.12

Format: 206 pages,

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5. Noble House (Asian Saga, #5)

By: James Clavell

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's Note: An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found  The tai-pan, Ian Dunross, struggl… read more

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6. Gangsters of Shanghai

By: None

4.57

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

"From out of nowhere, this is one of the most enjoyable Shanghai novels we've read... Seek this sup… read more

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7. Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)

By: James Clavell

4.30

Format: 732 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk S… read more

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  • historical fiction
"There can only be one Tai-Pan."

-James Clavell, Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)

"You live by the lash and you'll die by it."

-James Clavell, Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)

"Only a real man has the right to stand at the pinnacle."

-James Clavell, Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)

"Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way."

-James Clavell, Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)

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8. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 470 pages, ebook

Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from… read more

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"Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning b…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy i…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

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9. The Night Tiger

By: Yangsze Choo

3.86

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an o… read more

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  • historical fiction
"Tener buenas intenciones no es igual que hacer lo correcto."

-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger

"One of the appalling yet convenient things about being family is that you can trade accusations at night, then pretend next morning that nothing has happened."

-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger

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10. Dust Child

By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more

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  • historical fiction
"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

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11. Chasing the Dragon: BY NEW BLOOD DAGGER AND SCOTTISH CRIME DEBUT SHORTLISTED AUTHOR (Betancourt Mystery Series Book 2)

By: Mark Wightman

4.25

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

The much-awaited follow up to Waking the Tiger, shortlisted for the 2022 Crime Writers’ Association… read more

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  • crime
  • historical fiction
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12. The Elephant Keeper's Daughter

By: Julia Drosten

4.12

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Lioness of Morocco comes the beguiling novel of a young woman tr… read more

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  • historical fiction
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13. The Dragon Queen (The Dragon #2)

By: William Andrews

4.25

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Daughters of the Dragon comes the story of one of the most extraordi… read more

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  • historical fiction
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14. Silk Road

By: Colin Falconer

4.27

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Silk Road weaves a spellbinding tale of courage, danger and human frailty onto the vast tapestry of… read more

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  • historical fiction
"They found him in the cloister, lying on his back with ice in his beard. He was half conscious, muttering about a Templar knight, a secret commission from the Pope, and a beautiful woman on a white p…"

-Colin Falconer, Silk Road

"His fellow monks carried him back to his cell and laid him on the hard cot that had been his bed for the last twenty years. He was an old man now and there was nothing to be done. His eyes had the co…"

-Colin Falconer, Silk Road

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15. Waking the Tiger

By: Mark Wightman

4.35

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for a Crime Writers' Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2022.Finalist for the … read more

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  • crime
  • historical fiction
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16. Ice in the Blood

By: Kevin Wignall

4.44

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping and emotionally-charged new thriller from the bestselling author of A DEATH IN SWEDEN an… read more

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17. Bucharest Unbound (Alex Kovacs 12)

By: Richard Wake

4.28

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

ALEX KOVACS IS BACK, DESPERATELY TRYING NOT TO BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS HIM. Or, rather, the hand … read more

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18. Laundry Man (The Jack Shepherd Novels #1)

By: Jake Needham

3.78

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Over a hundred million dollars vanishes in the collapse of a dodgy Asian bank, and a bunch of dange… read more

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  • crime
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19. Who the Hell is Harry Black? (Inspector Samuel Tay #7)

By: Jake Needham

4.59

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

TWO PEOPLE ARE WORKING THE CASE. ONE OF THEM HAS BEEN DEAD FOR A DECADE. For over thirty year… read more

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20. The Ambassador's Wife (Inspector Samuel Tay #1)

By: Jake Needham

4.00

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

American women are being brutally murdered across Southeast Asia. So, Inspector Samuel Tay of Singa… read more

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  • crime
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21. The Dead American (Inspector Samuel Tay #3)

By: Jake Needham

4.17

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

They steer a tight ship in squeaky-clean Singapore. No dissent, no opposition, no criticism. It’s l… read more

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  • crime
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22. Bangkok Circles: An NJA Club Novel (NJA Club Novels Book 5)

By: Stephen Shaiken

4.37

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

A year after US expat lawyer Glenn Murray Cohen helped drive the Brooklyn Mafia out of Bangkok, he … read more

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23. Shitamachi Scam

By: Michael Pronko

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

After the suspicious deaths of a seventy-something woman and a student recluse, Detective Hiroshi t… read more

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24. The Umbrella Man (Inspector Samuel Tay #2)

By: Jake Needham

4.27

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The first bomb cracked the Hilton like an egg; the second gutted the lobby of the Marriott; and the… read more

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  • crime
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25. Mongkok Station (Inspector Samuel Tay #6)

By: Jake Needham

4.61

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

A city that’s falling apart, a man who’s falling apart, and a girl with a secret past who's disappe… read more

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26. Reds and Whites (Tom Lai # 2)

By: Matthew Legare

4.15

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Shanghai, August 1937 Following the destruction of his nightclub, Chinese American ex-pat Tom La… read more

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27. Shanghai Twilight (Tom Lai #1)

By: Matthew Legare

3.90

Format: 237 pages, ebook

Shanghai, January 1932 As tensions between Japan and China reach a boiling point, Chinese-Americ… read more

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  • historical fiction
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28. And Brother It's Starting to Rain (Inspector Samuel Tay #5)

By: Jake Needham

4.49

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

SAMUEL TAY HAS RETIRED from Singapore CID. It wasn’t entirely his idea, but that’s another story. J… read more

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29. The Girl in the Window (Inspector Samuel Tay #4)

By: Jake Needham

4.46

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Singapore is a good house in a bad neighborhood. Three hundred million Muslims live in Indonesia an… read more

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30. Tokyo Time

By: Dawn Farnham

4.15

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1942, during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, two seasoned homicide detectives—one a Eurasi… read more

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31. Reunion in Prague (Alex Kovacs thriller series Book 13)

By: Richard Wake

4.37

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

WHEN FAMILY TIES LEAD TO DEADLY CONSEQUENCES.Everyman spy Alex Kovacs returns to action in Reunion … read more

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3.44

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