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Jake Needham
Once upon a time, I was a screen and television writer, but I started writing crime novels when I realized I really didn't like movies and television all that much. Since then, I've published twenty crime and mystery novels. I've been nominated for the Barry Award three times, and the International…
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Once upon a time, I was a screen and television writer, but I started writing crime novels when I realized I really didn't like movies and television all that much.
Since then, I've published twenty crime and mystery novels. I've been nominated for the Barry Award three times, and the International Thriller Writers' Award once. The seventh book in my Inspector Tay series — WHO THE HELL IS HARRY BLACK? — won the Barry Award for Best Paperback Mystery of 2024.
My wife and I live in Bangkok now, and have for over thirty years.
The romantic notion of the American expatriate novelist living an exciting life in some exotic land pretty much disappeared nearly a century ago when Hemingway and Fitzgerald fled Paris, but there are still a few of us out here.
This is where we live...
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JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE 2026 The Charlie Trust legal thrillers #5 A JURY OF HIS PEERS 2026 The Charlie Trust legal thrillers #4 HEARSAY TESTIMONY 2026 The Charlie Trust legal thrillers #3 CONTEMPT OF COURT 2026 ★ 9.0/10 Anticipation The Charlie Trust legal thrillers #2 Habeas Corpus 2025 ★ 8.0/10 Anticipation The Charlie Trust legal thrillers #1 
GOODBYE, MR. BOOGIE 2025 Inspector Samuel Tay #9 
THE DETECTIVE GONE GRAY 2024 ★ 8.0/10 Anticipation Inspector Samuel Tay #8 
Who the Hell is Harry Black? 2023 Inspector Samuel Tay #7 
The Nineteen 2022 The Jack Shepherd Novels #6 
MONGKOK STATION 2020 Inspector Samuel Tay #6 
AND BROTHER IT'S STARTING TO RAIN 2019 Inspector Samuel Tay #5 
The Girl in the Window 2019 Inspector Samuel Tay #4 
Don't Get Caught 2017 The Jack Shepherd Novels #5 
The Big Mango 2017 Mean Streets of Asia Crime #3 
The Dead American 2014 Inspector Samuel Tay #3 
The King of Macau 2014 The Jack Shepherd Novels #4 
The Umbrella Man 2012 Inspector Samuel Tay #2 
A World Of Trouble 2012 The Jack Shepherd Novels #3 
The Ambassador's Wife 2008 Inspector Samuel Tay #1 
Killing Plato 2007 The Jack Shepherd Novels #2 
Laundry Man 2002 The Jack Shepherd Novels #1