A beautiful young woman is found murdered in a luxury apartment on the tropical holiday island of Phuket. She has been butchered. She has a top security pass for the British embassy. Exhibits have gone missing and the crime scene has been tampered with. Dublin born Detective Sgt Danny O’Brien has been an alcoholic for the last ten years, when the British Ambassador in Bangkok requests assistance from Scotland Yard for this ‘No hoper’ of a case. Danny is packed off to Thailand to see out the last six months before his retirement. He is met at the airport by the beautiful, but brand newly promoted Thai Detective ‘Ying’ who is assigned to him because she is the only Thai Detective who is fluent in English. They both have secrets and sorrows from their pasts and issues with each other and with the case. Can they overcome a cultural difference that puts them worlds apart long enough to solve an unsolvable case?

Danny O’Brien is now retired from the police and constantly being arrested for being drunk and disorderly around London. He has been warned that the next time he is arrested he will go to prison. In his sober moments he thinks about returning to Thailand. When a real opportunity presents itself only a few days later, Danny is convinced that he can feel the breath of the mythical ‘Thai Dragon’ breathing on him and the urge to return is overwhelming. A job offer is made by a beautiful Thai lady to find her missing English boyfriend. The missing person is Jack MORGAN, a retired police officer from the West Midlands police, but if he is missing then who is running his bar ‘Captain Morgan’s on the holiday island of Phuket? After a meeting with Jack Morgan’s mysterious Thai girlfriend Danny agrees to investigate the case. A case that will take him deep into the jungle on the border with neighbouring Myanmar (Burma) and into the hot arid north of Thailand to the shores of the mighty Mekong river. It soon becomes obvious to Danny that this is a murder case but now he needs to find the body to prove it. There is a lot more to Jack Morgan then Jack would have wanted anyone to know, especially an ex detective from Scotland Yard and there are other people who do not want Jack Morgan’s body to be found. Ex Detective Sergeant Danny O’Brien is back on another case in Thailand, but this time it is personal and he needs help from an old friend.

Just as Danny O’Brien starts to settle down to peace and quiet and a happy married life in Isaan in the north east of Thailand a serial killer starts terrorizing the beautiful tropical holiday island of Phuket, targeting the sex workers around the bar scene. When ex Detective Sergeant Danny O’Brien is drafted in as a Detective Consultant on the case he uncovers further murders from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, going back over a ten year period. He makes more enemies then friends in his attempts to find the murderer. Danny could not imagine the impact this case will have on his life and his future. His personal journey is touched by great happiness and overwhelming sadness, but he has a case to solve and people are depending on him. Danny sets out to trap the killer unaware of the danger is own life is in. A race against time in a game of cat and mouse that he can’t afford to lose.

Steven West is not one of life’s beautiful people. He works in an uninspiring factory and goes home each day smelling of toxic glue. He is a simple man with simple needs and with little education or ambition. Like all of us he seeks happiness, maybe even love. A holiday in the beautiful tropical paradise island of Phuket, Thailand and a meeting with ‘The Flower Girl’ was going to change his life and his future forever in a way that he would never dream of. This is his incredible and moving story. In parts hilariously funny, in parts tearfully sad. When a dream turns into a nightmare and when love turns into Murder, it probably wasn’t the best holiday he had ever had!

When a Very Important Person is kidnapped in Southeast Asia it threatens to impact on current world affairs and change the very course of history. The British government call upon New Scotland Yard’s ex Detective Sgt Danny O’Brien to help find the captor. Danny is a recovering alcoholic and just wants to live a quiet life in Thailand but finds himself being dragged into an international game of cat and mouse. This latest blockbuster by international best selling author Guy Lilburne is his best yet.

Thai Shorts, a wonderful collection of short stories set in Thailand, by best selling author, Guy Lilburne. A fantastic collection of new characters will make you laugh and cry in stories of Love and Hate, Murder, Life and Death. Stories that will take you all over Thailand and cover many aspects of life and living in ‘The Land of Smiles’. From 1953 Bangkok to modern day Pattaya, this book is full of stories that will stay with you long after you have finished reading Thai Shorts.