detective – Tom Vater

Kitty Lisha reviews The Cambodian Book of the Dead

May 28, 2021June 13, 2021tom

Thanks to Kitty Lisha for a fair review of The Cambodian Book of the Dead, the first Detective Maier Mystery, originally published in 2013. This book….this book. Where to begin. It has a lot of facts in it. I didn’t fact check them. Didn’t really have the desire to if we are being honest here […]

The Monsoon Ghost Image reviewed at Categorically Well Read

February 4, 2020February 19, 2020tomLeave a Comment

Fantastic and exhaustive review of the third Detective Maier novel, The Monsoon Ghost Image at Categorically Well Read, published by Crime Wave Press: I was curious as I read my way through this trilogy of thrillers why Vater decided to set them in 2001-2, the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. With TMGI his […]

THE CAMBODIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD – Reloaded!

February 17, 2016February 17, 2016tomLeave a Comment

I am very pleased that The Cambodian Book of the Dead, the first Detective Maier novel, originally published by the now defunct Exhibit A, is out in a new Kindle edition, with a brand new cover, with Crime Wave Press. The second Maier Mystery, The Man with the Golden Mind, may well follow suit in […]