Outsourcing the Corpse

Allie Barnes is the orphaned daughter of an American DEA agent and a Thai mother. Her hard edge and uncanny ability to read people make her a gifted detective but an unwelcome addition to a male dominated agency.

After the mysterious marriage and subsequent death of a Minnesota man in the resort town of Pattaya, Thailand Allie finds herself back in Thailand saddled with an unwelcome partner investigating Thailand's morally challenged community of retired expats in a sun baked sea of prostitution, murder and fraud.

While recalling her childhood Allie navigates the neon reality of Thailand's booming tourism industry as she encounters a landscape of sexism and prejudice. She struggles to unravel murders and in the process protect those who find themselves in the magnetic path of danger and violence that seems to follow Allie.