Eclectic crime fiction & informed, irreverent non-fiction from Asia & beyond
SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE Detective Maier is ten years old and all three books in my Detective Maier Mysteries series are now available in one volume! And now, for a few short days, Apple Books are selling the entire collection for just 99CENTS!! The Cambodian Book Of The Dead: In this thrilling tale, German […]
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Between 2013 and 2018, I published three crime novels featuring Maier, a former conflict journalist turned detective.Based in Hamburg, Maier solves crimes involving Germans who have gotten in trouble in Asia.The first two books in the series, The Cambodian Book of the Dead and The Man with the Golden Mind were published to great critical […]
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I’m a writer and journalist with an eye on South and Southeast Asia. I first visited beautiful, land-locked, and sleepy Laos in 2000, as the country reluctantly reemerged from post-revolutionary isolation. I researched and co-wrote The Most Secret Place on Earth, a feature documentary on how the CIA created a clandestine army to fight Laotian […]
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Detective Maier has a new case. This time it is a cold case: investigating the death of Julia Rendel’s father, an East German culture attaché who was killed near a fabled CIA airbase in central Laos in 1976. But before the detective can set off, his client is kidnapped right out of his arms. Maier […]
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Cambodia, 2001 – a country re-emerging from a half-century of war, genocide, famine and cultural collapse. German Detective Maier travels to Phnom Penh, the Asian kingdom’s ramshackle capital, to find the heir to a Hamburg coffee empire. As soon as the private eye and former war reporter arrives in Cambodia, his search for the young […]
Continue ReadingThe Man With The Golden Mind, republished as ebook, paperback, large print hard back and audio book by Next Chapter very soon!
Continue ReadingA brand new edition of The Cambodian Book of the Dead, the first Detective Maier Mystery will be out soon with Next Chapter as ebook, paperback, large print and audio book. And here’s the new cover.
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With great sadness, Hans and Tom have decided to wind down Crime Wave Press after publishing 37 crime novels from around the world in the past 12 years. Several of our titles were published in foreign languages and as audio books, a few were optioned for movie rights. We’re proud to have shifted tens of […]
Continue ReadingJohn Wisniewski interviewed me at length about my novels and short fiction, as well as about life in Asia and pop cultural influences for Punk Noir Magazine. 1.When and how did you become interested in writing, Tom? Several different experiences pushed me to become a writer, starting years before I considered writing a serious career […]
Continue ReadingIn the 8th edition of Noir Nation, writer James Newman reviews my latest novel The Monsoon Ghost Image while dissecting the curious Thailand ex-pat literary scene, featuring interviews with Paul French, Angela Savage and Christopher Moore. The third Detective Maier mystery is a taut and crazy spy thriller for our disturbing times. When award-winning German […]
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