#SpotLight ~ Bangkok Noir: A BDSM Thriller By Lisabet Sarai ~ @lisabetsarai

Bangkok Noir: 

A BDSM Thriller

By Lisabet Sarai

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Guest Post from Lisabet Sarai

A Deeper Need

With the success of FSOG, power exchange stories have become wildly popular, but I've been writing BDSM since my first book, Raw Silk, was published in 1999. My own fascination with the topic is personal rather than market-driven; some of the most intense and meaningful sexual experiences I have ever had occurred in the context of a power exchange relationship. Those experiences changed me forever.

I find that erotic romance (including the all-too-famous trilogy) sometimes treats BDSM rather superficially. Fundamentally, BDSM is not about doing things: spanking, whipping, bondage, forced exhibitionism, or whatever. Power exchange is more a state of being, an ongoing psychic connection between the top and bottom which amplifies sensation and emotion regardless of who is doing what to whom. I know there are some subs who seek pain for its own sake, but I have a deeper need: the need to totally surrender to a powerful other, to trust him (or her) not just with my body but with my spirit. For me, BDSM is transformational and healing, more about devotion and respect, honesty and intimacy, than about pain or even pleasure. Meanwhile, in order to feel whole, a true dominant requires the sub's willing acquiescence to being controlled and used.  Complementary needs, complementary fantasies – like pieces of a puzzle, each partner in the power exchange completes the other.

My latest release, Bangkok Noir, features several characters for whom power exchange is serious, even necessary. Some are dominant, some submissive, some both.

Like me, their kink is a fundamental part of who they are.

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Blurb:

Dark desires flourish in the glittering City of Angels

Diana Fanning, aka the Professor, runs The Academy, the only genuine BDSM bar in Bangkok. She's the first person police colonel Apichat Weeranwongsakul consults when a bar girl turns up brutally murdered, tightly bound, with clamped nipples and every orifice stuffed with sex toys. The colonel figures the killer might be one of her customers. But he has his own secrets. He needs Diana to satisfy his shameful dreams of being beaten and abused.

Meanwhile, a mysterious American named Sam stalks Nok, the lovely natural dominant who is the Professor's star performer. Nok is used to being the one in charge. She can't understand why she craves the discipline Sam administers.

As more women are slaughtered, always in kinky circumstances, the Professor finds herself in an exclusive world catering to the perversions of Bangkok's wealthy and well-connected. Simultaneously looking for evidence and satisfying her own lusts, she doesn't realize until too late that the power she's used to wielding won't save her from becoming the serial murderer's next victim.

Excessica, 2014 (ebook)

WordWooze Publishing, 2017 (audio book)

BDSM Erotic Suspense (Five flames, M/f, F/m and F/f)

Ebook: approximately 30,000 words

Audio edition: 3 hours, 28 minutes

Note this book does not have a HEA.

 #bdsm #femdom #lesbian #bondage #discipline #dominance #submission  #thriller #murdermystery #suspense #thailand

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Excerpt:

I was the first girl to arrive at the bar that night. I wanted Ajarn to see I'm serious about my job. I dressed in my cat woman costume. Then I sat on a tall stool outside the door with my legs crossed and my riding crop on my lap. I swung my high-heeled boot back and forth, trying to attract attention.

"Come inside," I called out to the men who passed. I made sure they could hear me over the loud music coming from the other bars. "Sexy BDSM show. No cover charge." Some of the men ate me up with their eyes as they strolled by—just another pretty girl. They didn't see my crop. They didn't understand. A few stopped, though, staring and looking nervous. I hooked those guys like fish. "Come inside. I know what you want, mister. You like my whip? I know how to use it." I pulled back the curtains and they scurried inside like little mice. Lin would enjoy playing with them.

I spotted the police coming from half a block away. Then it was my turn to run.

"P' Daeng! Police! Six or seven of them!" Ajarn hadn't arrived yet. What were we going to do?

It was that skinny colonel who came by every few weeks, plus two lieutenants and a couple of regular officers. "I want to speak to the owner," he told Daeng.

"I think she will be here soon. Please, sit down. Can I get you something?"

"No, no." He sounded angry. He and his men settled in booths near the front of the bar. The girls all huddled near the back, whispering and staring. Nu put on a Thai song. Of course no one danced.

I could hardly breathe. I checked my phone. It was 17:52. Where was Ajarn?

Finally she arrived. She obviously wasn't surprised to see the police.

"Colonel Apichat. Welcome back to The Academy. How can I help you?"

The policeman rose from his seat and drew an official-looking paper from his pocket. "Madame. You are the owner of this bar?" He spoke in English.

"Of course I am, Colonel. You know that."

He passed her the paper. I crept closer so I could see better what was going on. "It is my duty to inform you that this bar is closed."

Now Ajarn looked shocked. "Closed? But why?" She scanned the document. I guess she was searching for a signature. Ajarn can read Thai, but only a little.

"By order of the Metropolitan Police, the bar known as The Academy is ordered to be closed for offering lewd and obscene entertainment that offends public morality."

Ajarn laughed. She was taller than the policeman. "Oh, please! You can't be serious. Every bar in Patpong offers entertainment at least as lewd as mine. Are you going to close them all?"

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About Lisabet:

LISABET SARAI occasionally tackles other genres, but BDSM will always be her first love. Every one of her nine novels includes some element of power exchange, while her D/s short stories range from mildly kinky to intensely perverse.

You’ll find information and excerpts from all Lisabet’s books on her website (http://www.lisabetsarai.com/books.html), along with more than fifty free stories and lots more. At her blog Beyond Romance (http://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com), she shares her philosophy and her news and hosts lots of other great authors. She’s also on Goodreads and finally, on Twitter.  Sign up for her VIP email list and get first notice of all her releases and contests:  https://signup.ymlp.com/xgjjhmhugmgh