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When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa goes along for the ride, planning only to enjoy himself as much as possible. But when he hears about the suicide of a young woman, Martiya van der Leun, in the Thai prison where she was serving a life sentence for murder, what begins as mild curiosity becomes an obsession. It is clear that Martiya was guilty, but what was it that led her to kill?

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  • "Quand son amie accepte un poste d'institutrice dans le nord de la Thaïlande, Mischa, un jeune journaliste américain, décide de l'accompagner. Josh, un autre expatrié, a rencontré Martiya Van der Leun, une charismatique anthropologue, qui avait vécu parmi les Dyalo, tribu montagnarde du nord de la Thaïlande. Premier roman."
  • "When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa goes along for the ride, planning only to enjoy himself as much as possible. But when he hears about the suicide of a young woman, Martiya van der Leun, in the Thai prison where she was serving a life sentence for murder, what begins as mild curiosity becomes an obsession. It is clear that Martiya was guilty, but what was it that led her to kill?"@en
  • "Vivid, passionate, funny, deeply researched, and page-turningly plotted, this novel--set in northern Thailand--is a daring, spellbinding tale of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murder, and an obsessed young reporter named Mischa Berlinski."@en
  • ""When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, planning to enjoy himself and work as little as possible. But one evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story: a charismatic American anthropologist, Martiya van der Leun, has been found dead--a suicide--in the Thai prison where she was serving a life sentence for murder. Curious at first, Mischa is soon immersed in the details of her story. This ... novel expands into a mystery set among the Thai hill tribes, whose way of life became a battleground for the missionaries and the scientists living among them."--Page 4 of cover."
  • "Following his girlfriend to her new teaching position in Thailand, a young reporter researches the story of American anthropologist Martiya van der Leun, following her suicide in the Thai prison where she was serving a lengthy sentence for murder."
  • "A young American reporter investigates the motives behind murder of the scion of a legendary missionary family by a young woman anthropologist."
  • ""When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, planning to enjoy himself and work as little as possible. But one evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story: a charismatic American anthropologist, Martiya van der Leun, has been found dead--a suicide--in the Thai prison where she was serving a life sentence for murder. Curious at first, Mischa is soon immersed in the details of her story. This ... novel expands into a mystery set among the Thai hill tribes, whose way of life became a battleground for the missionaries and the scientists living among them"--Back of cover."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Romans (teksten)"

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  • "Dioses lejanos"@es
  • "Terenski rad"
  • "Fieldwork"@en
  • "Fieldwork"
  • "Le crime de Martiya Van der Leun roman"
  • "בקצה המטוטלת"
  • "Bi-ḳetseh ha-meṭuṭelet"

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