Mother of Pearl [Paperback] Savage, Angela

Bangkok PI Jayne Keeney takes on a case that pulls her into Thailand's underground sex industry — and straight into moral quicksand. When a young Burmese woman vanishes after working in a high-end bar, Jayne follows a trail that leads from the glittering rooftop clubs of Bangkok to the shadowy refugee camps on the Thai-Myanmar border. Angela Savage writes crime fiction with a conscience: this is a thriller that doesn't shy away from exploitation, trafficking, and the compromises good people make in impossible situations. The case gets personal, the stakes get deadly, and Jayne has to decide what justice actually looks like when the system is rigged. For fans of gritty, socially conscious crime fiction set in Southeast Asia — think Tana French's intensity meets the moral complexity of Graham Greene.