Experiencing cities in literature

How can you use the quite long time during the flight Dusseldorf Bangkok better than by reading a good book? Because both Düsseldorf and Bangkok are literally well-developed, not only through numerous travel guides, no, Dusseldorf and Bangkok each have an author who makes the cities experience exciting through stories:

Horst Eckert, who had a lot of trouble in Dusseldorf with his penultimate novel “Ways to fame”, because of hurt feelings of some representatives of the city at the Rhine. Readings were canceled, the mayor of Duesseldorf was not amused.
The Englishman John Burdett (“Bangkok Tattoo”) has been spared so far, but the picture that he draws from Bangkok is so fascinating and mysterious that Hollywood has also become aware of his novels and various film adaptations. So he sends his policeman Sonchai Jitpleecheep through obscure stories and the reader learns a lot about Bangkok, which cannot be found in a city guide.
Hollywood has not yet reported to Horst Eckert, but his latest Dusseldorf crime thriller “Königsallee” is likely to mix up the Dusseldorf Schickeria again. Take it! Both Eckert and Burdett make Dusseldorf and Bangkok appear entertaining in a different light.