When a prominent Norwegian diplomat is found dead in a Bangkok motel, detective Harry Hole is sent halfway across the world to quietly sort out a scandal the authorities would rather ignore. In the city’s heat and chaos, he is pulled into a murky investigation where corruption, danger, and the weight of his own instincts collide. Dark, tense, and relentlessly atmospheric, Cockroaches is a hard-edged thriller that turns a foreign capital into a maze of suspicion.