«Tiger Lily of Bangkok» by Owen Jones

When the Seeds of Revenge Blossom.Lily was a happy little girl, which lasted until an 'uncle' started to abuse her from the age of eleven. She became shy and introverted, leading a lonely life until she moved to Bangkok to study at university. However, her thoughts and her past would not leave her alone, so, after classes, she began to seek out men she suspected of paedophilia and exact her own peculiar type of revenge on them.She became the vengeful ‘Tiger Lily of Bangkok’ terrifying society, but how long could she keep evading the police, and did she secretly want to get caught anyway so she could make her story public?Synopsis:Lily was born in eastern Isaan near the Mekong River, the only daughter of Chinese-Thais who owned a shop in their small village.Her parents had a close friend that Lily called Uncle who used to smile at her and take her gifts as a small child. However, when she was just eleven years old the nature of the gifts changed and there was always a price to pay for them that Lily hated.Dare she upset her parents by telling them of her abuse? An accident of fate at school gave Lily the idea how to put an end to the problem once and for all and her parents came to realise what had been going on in their daughter's life after she bit off his penis. Soon after the incident, Lily's father died. Some said from shame. Lily herself was given compensation which she wanted to use to change her life. Her decision was to go to University in Bangkok. It was there that she realised that the compensation, which had seemed a fortune in the village, would not be enough to fund her University life in full and she descended into the seamier side of Bangkok life.A serial killer is taking the life of men in Bangkok and the city is rightly scared. Not only are the men marked in death but a trademark flower is left at the scene of each killing. The press says this is the most frightening serial killer since the cannibal child killer, Si Ouey Sae Urng of the 1950's. Fear haunts the city and no-one knows who will die next or how the victims are chosen. The police are baffled and the citizens cower behind closed doors fearful for their lives.It is Lily entrapping and murdering closet paedophiles, who have been attracted to her in her guise as an innocent schoolgirl.One day, she meets a boy who seems to truly care for her and she decides to give up her nightly pursuits, but can she?In the second volume, Tiger Lily of Bangkok in London, she resumes her quest to avenge abused children.