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Timothy Hallinan

ティモシー・ハリナン

Timothy Hallinan

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1949-01-01
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
Santa Monica, California → Southeast Asia (primarily Bangkok)

Career

Occupations
Writer, Consultant
Active Years
1980-2025
Nominations
Edgar Award nominee — The Queen of Patpong (2010), Macavity Award nominee — The Queen of Patpong (2010)

Awards

Lefty Award (Best Humorous Mystery Novel)
2015
Work: Herbie's Game
Category: Best Humorous Mystery Novel
Organization: Left Coast Crime
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Four Last Things

1989 Thriller / Hardboiled

One of the early Simeon Grist novels set in Los Angeles, exploring crime and the city's underworld.

Los Angelesprivate investigatorcrime

A Nail Through the Heart

2007 Thriller

The first of the Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers; a travel writer becomes entangled in the darker side of the city.

Bangkokexpatriate lifecultural friction

The Queen of Patpong

2010 Thriller

A Poke Rafferty thriller set in Bangkok's Patpong entertainment district involving complex criminal plots.

Bangkokentertainment districtcrime

For the Dead

2014 Thriller

A Poke Rafferty novel chosen by The New York Times Book Review to represent Thailand in its 'Thrillers from Around the World' feature.

justicelosstravel writer

Bibliography

  • The Four Last Things
  • Everything but the Squeal
  • Skin Deep
  • Incinerator
  • The Man with No Time
  • The Bone Polisher
  • Pulped
  • A Nail Through the Heart
  • The Fourth Watcher
  • Breathing Water
  • The Queen of Patpong
  • Hansum Man
  • The Fear Artist
  • For the Dead
  • The Hot Countries
  • Fools' River
  • Chalee's Nativity
  • Street Music
  • Crashed
  • Little Elvises
  • The Fame Thief
  • Herbie's Game
  • King Maybe
  • Fields Where They Lay
  • Nighttown
  • Rock of Ages
  • Shaken (edited)
  • Making Story (edited)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
fast-paced dialoguedeadpan/humorous tonerealistic local color and settings
Recurring Motifs
Los Angeles underworldBangkok and Southeast Asian settingscultural friction from an outsider's viewworkplace/occupational ethics vs. crime

Legacy

Hallinan is known for series set in Los Angeles and Bangkok; praised for blending humor with vivid local detail. Several works received major award nominations and international recognition.

Trivia

  • He divides his time roughly eight months in Santa Monica and four months in Southeast Asia each year.
  • He previously worked as a consultant and founded Hallinan Consulting.
  • He conceived and edited the fundraising anthology 'Shaken' after the 2011 Japan earthquake/tsunami.