First published 2020
Sarah Mullins lands in Bangkok carrying a suitcase full of stolen money and a desperate need to disappear. She takes refuge in the Kingdom, an upscale apartment tower where floor to ceiling windows reveal both the chaotic city below and the private lives of wealthy expatriate residents. Sarah meets Mali, a captivating neighbor who draws her into the building's social circle through weekly poker games fueled by local liquor and endless gossip. The other expatriate women welcome Sarah into their privileged world, but Bangkok's streets soon erupt in political violence and attempted coups. The unrest penetrates the Kingdom's glass walls as residents begin vanishing without explanation. Suspicion spreads through the building like poison. Sarah realizes her fellow tenants watch her every move, and the luxury compound that promised safety now feels like a trap. Her stolen money cannot buy her way out of the paranoia and fear that consume the Kingdom's residents as external chaos meets internal breakdown.
Genres: suspense, crime, contemporary, thriller, 21st-century, mystery-thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, paranoia, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Bangkok, Kingdom
Period: 21st-century
274 pages · Kindle Edition · Hogarth
Content warnings: anxiety, violence