Order of Jake Needham Books
Jake Needham is an American novelist and screenwriter with a tremendous following in Asia. He’s been called “Michael Connelly with steamed rice” and is the top selling American author in Asia. He has been praised for his work in both in American and across the world. He is married to Pinptuporn Sawamiphakdi and they choose to split their time between Thailand and the United States.
He is the creator of two popular series of books, Jack Shepherd and Inspector Samuel Tay. The Jack Shepherd series takes place in Thailand while the Samual Tay series takes place in Singapore. Despite being an American by birth, Needham has been praised of his realistic portrayal of these places.
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Publication Order of Inspector Samuel Tay Books
| The Ambassador's Wife | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Umbrella Man | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dead American | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Girl in the Window | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| And Brother It's Starting to Rain | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mongkok Station | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Who the Hell is Harry Black? | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Detective Gone Gray | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Jack Shepherd Books
| Laundry Man | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Killing Plato | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A World of Trouble | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The King of Macau | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don't Get Caught | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| And Brother It's Starting to Rain | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Nineteen | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Mean Streets of Asia Crime Novels Books
| The Big Mango | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Laundry Man | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Killing Plato | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ambassador's Wife | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A World of Trouble | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Umbrella Man | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The King of Macau | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dead American | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Girl in the Window | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don't Get Caught | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| And Brother It's Starting to Rain | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Chronological Order of The Mean Streets of Asia Crime Novels Books
| The Ambassador's Wife | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Umbrella Man | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Big Mango | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Laundry Man | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Killing Plato | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dead American | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A World of Trouble | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Girl in the Window | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The King of Macau | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don't Get Caught | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| And Brother It's Starting to Rain | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Big Mango | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
If You Like Jake Needham Books, You’ll Love…
Laundry Man is the first book in the Jack Shepherd series and it’s a great one. The story follows the title character as he leaves the cut throat, savage world of Washington, DC politics where he was a powerful lawyer. He moves to a small town outside of Bangkok where he tries to a live a quiet, boring life as a professor at a small university. When a bank collapses and a former partner is found behind it, Shepherd will be drawn right back into the world of deceit and lies.
The Inspector Samuel Tay books kick off with The Ambassador’s Wife. This one starts off with two dead American women, one in Singapore and one in Bangkok. Both of them were viciously beaten, shot in the head and left displayed naked in a lewd way. It is a sickening crime that the FBI is blaming on terrorism, but Inspector Tay has a different idea about who has been causing this and it’s up to him to prove it. CID gives him the case because he’s the best at what he does, but he can’t seem to shake the feeling that nobody wants this one to be solved.