Timothy Hallinan

American travel writer Poke Rafferty has seen - and survived - some of the worst Bangkok has to offer....

Junior Bender is a Los Angeles burglar with a magic touch....

Reluctant P.I. to the perfidious, Junior Bender, may be LA’s smoothest operator but when he breaks one of the cardinal rules of burglary (don’t take scores that you’re being paid way too much for) he finds himself once again on the wrong side of, well, the wrong side....

It's three days until Christmas and Junior Bender, Hollywood's fast-talking fixer for the felonious, is up to his ears in shopping mall Santas, Russian mobsters, desperate holiday shoppers....

Back when Poke Rafferty first arrived in Bangkok to write a travel guide, some of the old-timers in the Expat Bar on Patpong Road helped him make sense of the city....

A poker game nets American ex-pat writer Poke Rafferty the "opportunity" to write the biography of Khun Pan, a self-made billionaire with a criminal past and far-reaching political ambitions....

In Bangkok, Thailand, an American travel journalist and his Thai family find themselves inadvertently entangled in a web of dirty cops and far-reaching corruption....

There are not many people brave enough to say no to Irwin Dressler, Hollywood’s scariest mob boss turned movie king....

Junior Bender, Los Angeles burglar and off-the-books detective to the felonious, is reminded that rock and roll will never die when Hollywood’s most dangerous geriatric mobster, Irwin Dressler, retains Junior’s investigative services to solve a rather unharmonious problem....

The birth of Poke and Rose’s newborn son has littered their small apartment with emotional land mines. At the same time, the most cantankerous member of the small gang of Old Bangkok Hands who hang out at the Expat Bar suddenly goes missing....

Timothy Hallinan returns us to the Bangkok of The Queen of Patpong and further lays bare the seediest industry in Thailand....

Simeon thought he was living a good life - solving mysteries, falling in and out of love, risking life and limb to do the right thing....

Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender is in the middle of burgling a house and has just gotten his hands on one of the world's rarest stamps when the job goes terrifically wrong....

In the West Hollywood of 1995, the community is shaken by the brutal killing of an older man who was widely loved for his generosity and kindness....

Simeon Grist does a favor for the family of his sometimes-girlfriend, Eleanor Chan, and goes looking for two children who vanished in Chinatown....

Edgar and Macavity Award nominee Timothy Hallinan's novels featuring erudite Los Angeles private eye Simeon Grist have become cult favorites - and this fourth installment is one wild ride....

Simeon Grist takes a case that leads him to the phantom neighborhoods of Los Angeles' lost children. Missing 13-year-old Aimee Sorrell's trail soon leads to the city morgue....

When Grist is hired by a Hollywood recording company to shadow one Sally Oldfield, suspected of embezzlement, Grist discovers she's entangled in the Church of the Eternal Moment...

For a fee so big he can't turn it down, Simeon Grist is hired to watchdog the kind of guy he'd usually prefer to throw through the nearest window....

It's everyday business when Wattles, the San Fernando Valley's top "executive crook", sets up a hit....