Jake Needham

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 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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Series by Jake Needham

Inspector Samuel Tay (9 books)
The Charlie Trust legal thrillers (4 books)
The Jack Shepherd Novels (6 books)
Mean Streets of Asia Crime (1 book)

Speculative Fiction Books

(Inspector Samuel Tay #3 / 9)
2014 | fantasy, thriller, crime fiction, mystery

Fictions and Others

(The Charlie Trust legal thrillers #5 / 5)
2026 | thriller, crime fiction | Release date December 2, 2026
(The Charlie Trust legal thrillers #4 / 5)
2026 | thriller, crime fiction
(The Charlie Trust legal thrillers #3 / 5)
2026 | thriller, crime fiction
(The Charlie Trust legal thrillers #2 / 5)
2026 | thriller, crime fiction
(The Charlie Trust legal thrillers #1 / 5)
2025 | thriller, crime fiction
(Inspector Samuel Tay #9 / 9)
2025 | thriller, crime fiction, mystery
(Inspector Samuel Tay #8 / 9)
2024 | thriller, crime fiction, mystery
(Inspector Samuel Tay #7 / 9)
2023 | thriller, crime fiction, mystery
(The Jack Shepherd Novels #6 / 6)
2022 | thriller, crime fiction, mystery
(Inspector Samuel Tay #6 / 9)
2020 | thriller, crime fiction, mystery
(Inspector Samuel Tay #5 / 9)
2019 | thriller, crime fiction, mystery
(Inspector Samuel Tay #4 / 9)
2019 | mystery
(The Jack Shepherd Novels #5 / 6)
2017 | thriller, crime fiction, mystery
(Mean Streets of Asia Crime #3 / 3)
2017 | thriller, mystery
(The Jack Shepherd Novels #4 / 6)
2014 | thriller, crime fiction, mystery
(Inspector Samuel Tay #2 / 9)
2012 | thriller, crime fiction, mystery
(The Jack Shepherd Novels #3 / 6)
2012 | thriller, crime fiction, mystery
(Inspector Samuel Tay #1 / 9)
2008 | thriller, crime fiction, mystery
(The Jack Shepherd Novels #2 / 6)
2007 | thriller, crime fiction, mystery
(The Jack Shepherd Novels #1 / 6)
2002 | thriller, crime fiction, mystery

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