The Missing Guests of the Magic Grove Hotel
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A fascinating mystery featuring Ladarat Patalung, the first and only nurse detective in Thailand.
As a nurse ethicist, Ladarat Patalung works to save the lives of her patients, and to make sure the ones she can't save have at least the dignity of a "good death."
But when wealthy foreign travelers start to go missing all across Thailand, Detective Wiriya Mookjai fears that a killer is at large, and turns to Ladarat for help.
The travelers have nothing in common, except for brief stays at a mysterious resort, known as the Magic Grove Hotel. . .
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Fans of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series will feel at home with Casarett's stellar sequel to 2016's Murder at the House of Rooster Happiness. Ladarat Patalung serves as the nurse ethicist for Chiang Mai University's Sriphat Hospital in northern Thailand. Her duties include reviewing the circumstances of deceased patients to assess whether they had "good deaths." She has the ability to see what others do not, as well as a deep reserve of empathy to rival that of Smith's Mma Ramotswe, qualities that come in handy when Wiriya Mookjai, her detective friend in the Chiang Mai Royal Police, asks her to help look into the disappearance of at least eight tourists, all connected to a hotel known as the Magic Grove. Ladarat visits the Magic Grove, where the reaction of the foreign proprietor to her inquiries about the most recent missing guest only fuels her suspicions that something untoward has been going on. A refreshingly admirable lead, Ladarat feels an ethical imperative to put aside her own needs to comfort those she sees in distress. Readers will hope to see a lot more of her.
