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Private eye and former war reporter, Maier is sent to Cambodia to track down the missing heir to a Hamburg coffee empire. His search leads him into the darkest corners of the country’s history, through the Killing Fields of the communist revolution, to the White Spider, a Nazi war criminal who reigns over an ancient [...]
I put my guide book author hat on last week and gave a live radio interview/podcast on Rudy Maxa’s World, America’s most widely-syndicated weekend travel radio show, on Saturday, May 11th. I’ll be talking about travel writing, tourism, publishing and my new US published guide to the Angkor temples in Cambodia from Moon Guides. Here’s [...]
Journalists, writers, bloggers interested in reviewing my new crime novel The Cambodian Book of the Dead, out very soon with Exhibit A, please follow this trail…..to the advance reading copies….and thank you… Private eye and former war reporter Maier is sent to Cambodia to track down the missing heir to a Hamburg coffee empire. His [...]
British publisher Exhibit A will soon release my second novel, The Cambodian Book of the Dead. I have been talking to Keith Walters on his popular book blog about the long journey to publication.
Photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat shoots the Bangkok Night of Noir at Check Inn 99, legendary Vietnam era haunt on Sukhumvit Road (and once a watering hole (pun probably intended) for Bob Hope, on April 17th. The evening featured local literary luminaries James Newman who organized the event, Dean Barrett, Christopher C. Moore, John Gartland and me. [...]
I’ve been interviewed by British crime writer Paul D. Brazill about the crime fiction imprint I launched with publisher Hans Kemp last year, Crime Wave Press. Crime Wave Press is a Hong Kong based fiction imprint that endeavors to publish the best new crime novels from Asia and about Asia to readers around the globe. [...]
Dead Sea by Sam Lopez, a scuba dive thriller set in the Philippines and published by Crime Wave Press, will be available absolutely FREE on February 26th and 27th as an Amazon Kindle ebook. You will be able to download Dead Sea here!!! Grab a copy while supplies last. Andrew Nette reviewed Dead Sea a [...]
My first novel, The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, originally published in 2006, is back in print! Republished by Crime Wave Press, this thriller set on the 1970s hippie trail between London and Kathmandu, was published in July last year as an ebook. A Spanish language edition came out last week with Editorial Xplora, both as [...]
The Cambodian Book of the Dead will be out world wide (except Thailand and Cambodia where Crime Wave Press retains the rights) with Exhibit A in June. Here’s the new very cool cover!!! The Cambodian Book of the Dead is the first Maier Mystery. Part Two is in the works and should be out early [...]
Suicide Sister, the second installment of the Father Ananda series sees the Bangkok based Buddhist monk and his sidekick Jak travel to the Thai hinterlands to investigate the mysterious death of a nun in a Buddhist theme park, popular for its garish depictions of hell. As soon as the reluctant sleuth arrives at the monastery [...]