Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo (3/10)

Harry Hole is brought out of his drunken stupor to go close a case in Bangkok where the Norwegian Ambassador was found murdered in a disreputable hotel.  He doesn’t really want to go, but he had some celebrity from his last case and that’s who they want to handle this one.  He’s supposed to just clean-up and call the case unsolvable.  But of course, that’s not how Harry operates.  He needs to find out who really killed the Ambassador, and other parties that seem to drop like flies.  In the end, at great personal risk and cost, he nails the bad guy and wakes-up later in a hospital, recovering.  But now that the case is closed, he has to try to seek oblivion again – only this time in an opium den.