The Marriage Tree

In The Marriage Tree, Christopher G. Moore delivers a haunting addition to his Shamus Award-winning Vincent Calvino noir detective series. Set in the heart of Thailand, this atmospheric thriller explores the intersection of crime, mysticism, and human suffering.When a brilliant woman's bizarre "marriage of the dead" ceremonies lead to a series of ritualistic killings, private investigator Vincent Calvino uncovers a hidden world of human trafficking, corruption, and exploitation stretching from Bangkok's neon alleys to the Myanmar border. The mysterious "marriage tree," rooted in ancient Thai beliefs, becomes both symbol and clue in a case where justice and karma intertwine.Combining the grit of hardboiled detective fiction with rich cultural insight, Moore reveals a Southeast Asia both spiritual and sinister. The Marriage Tree is a masterful fusion of noir suspense, moral complexity, and the ghosts that linger in the modern world. Heaven Lake Press was founded in 1998. The mission is to publish authors whose books focus people, events, culture and history in Southeast Asia. In the past five years, we have been recognized as a publisher of quality books. We put a great deal of care in the production of our books. We have worked with some of Thailand's leading translators and are proud of our relationship with the Thai writing community. We have also have licensed German translations in exciting, modern fiction set in Thailand.Heaven Lake Press is a small team of professionals who run a small Thai publishing house. We have a growing list of authors. Our authors include Canadian, American, Cambodian and Thai writers. We hope to expand our list of authors and titles in the future. Our offices are located in Bangkok. Our hardback and trade paperback books are distributed to leading bookstores in Thailand, including Asia Books, Bookazine, Kinokuniya, B2S, The Book in Phuket, and Suriwong in Chiang Mai. Amarin is our distributor for our Thai language titles which can be found in over 150 bookstores in Thailand.We specialize in fiction – literary and crime fiction, as well as books on history, language, culture and relationships. Our list of non-fiction titles is quickly expanding. We are publishing three memoirs in 2006. Our books are published primarily in the English language, although we have started to publish books translated into the German and Thai languages.