THE AMBASSADOR'S WIFE (THE INSPECTOR SAMUEL TAY NOVELS Book 1)

“Jake Needham is Asia’s Dashiell Hammett. His plotting is top-notch, and his writing is exquisitely fine. Highly, highly recommended.” - Brendan DuBois, New York Times bestselling author with James Patterson of THE FIRST LADY

"THE AMBASSADOR’S WIFE is another terrific book from a terrific writer. Jake Needham is in a class of his own.”- The Bangkok Post

THE FIRST BODY is in Singapore, on a bed in an empty suite at the Marriott Hotel. The second is in Bangkok, in a seedy apartment near the American embassy. Both American women viciously beaten and shot in the head. Both bodies stripped naked and lewdly displayed.

The FBI says it’s terrorism, but the whispers on the street tell a different story. They say a serial killer is stalking American women in Asia.

Singapore CID assigns the case to Inspector Samuel Tay. Tay is something of a reluctant policeman. He’s a little overweight, a little lonely, a little cranky, and he smokes way too much. Thinking back, he can’t even remember why he became a police detective in the first place. He often talks about quitting, but he hasn’t. Because the thing is, he’s very, very good at what he does.

So why is it, Tay soon begins to wonder, that nobody seems to want him to find the women's killer? Not his bosses at CID, not the FBI, not even the American ambassador. 

When international politics takes over a murder case, the truth is usually the next victim.