Waking the Tiger

The image of the book cover for Waking the Tiger by Mark Wightman includes the tagline ' A Betancourt Mystery ' and the quote 'A wonderfully accomplished debut. ... Wightman is a writer we can expect great things of.' Abir Mukherjee

The image has a red, textured background shot with gold, there is half the figure of an Asian woman standing on the right, her head tipped slightly down, looking towards the left. There is a large building at the bottom with a tall clock tower in the centre, and the title of the novel has a golden tiger standing in front of the T in Tiger.

Singapore, 1939

A young Japanese woman is found dead on the dockside, her throat slashed

Inspector Maximo Betancourt is working a new beat, one he didn’t ask for. Following the disappearance of his wife, his life and career have fallen...Read more

Chasing the Dragon

The image of the book cover for Chasing the Dragon by Mark Wightman includes the tagline ' A Betancourt Mystery '.

The image has a dark background with a bright red smokey looking cloud taking up most of the area, with a view of a bay with a lot of small boats moored on it at the bottom and the hint of a dark dragon's face in the centre, the title is superimposed over that in gold italic lettering. Directly below that is a golden long dragon.

Detective Inspector Betancourt of the Singapore Marine Police is first on the scene. Something doesn't quite add up. He finds out that the archaeologist, Richard Fulbright, was close to deciphering the previously-untranslatable script on a pre-colonial relic known as the Singapore Stone....Read more