Buriram: Sex, Love & Lies : Vol. 3

Enter the real Thailand, away from the tourist hotspots, where nothing is quite what it seems. Go-go dancer Khim brings Leo to Buriram to celebrate New Year with her family and friends. But in no time at all her sister Bam is taking over and Leo finds himself confronted with sibling rivalry.

Bam’s sugar daddy, Felix, has gone missing and rumours are flying. Leo finds himself funding an exorcism to rid Bam’s house of a ghost but neither sister is clear about what exactly happened to the missing German. The possibility that he has been murdered makes Leo suspicious of both girls.

Meanwhile Leo’s lover from Paris, Sophia, is all set for their meeting in Koh Tao in the New Year, but wants to meet up a sooner for a night in the Big Mango. A series of frantic emails leads Leo to take a trip up to Bangkok, where they reunite in Pussy Galore, a sleek go-go bar in Patpong.

On Leo’s return to Buriram he is persuaded to pick up the drink, after a long period of abstinence, and Bam finds out what he was really up to in Bangkok. Khim, relieved that Leo has strayed from Bam, seizes her opportunity to win him back. The New Year celebrations begin and a game of Truth or Dare leads to a whole lot more trouble.

When it comes to womanizing and dysfunctional liaisons, Leo’s a master. A series of flashbacks to his early childhood give us a clue to where it all went wrong. At heart he is just a boy whistling in the dark to bolster his spirits, on a quest to find a true connection in a world of deceit. It is his own demons that lead him to seek love in all the wrong places.

This is a darkly humorous, contemporary, erotic romance that can be enjoyed as a standalone novel or read in conjunction with the other books in the series. ‘Sex, Love & Lies’ consists of four volumes, ‘Buriram’ being Vol. 3. The fourth and final volume, ‘Sophia’, set on the islands of Koh Samui and Koh Tao, will be released this summer.