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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 [...]
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 [...]
Rosa Ellen reports on all things fiction and Cambodia in this week’s Phnom Penh Post. Great photograph by Alexander Crook.
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.
Advanced reading copies from Exhibit A Books. Chuffed. Quite moved. Quite indescribable feeling… Detective Maier is on his way…. into hell and back….and a book shop near you!!!
I will be reading from my second novel, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, published in Thailand and Cambodian by Crime Wave Press, and from June world wide by Exhibit A Books in the UK. The Bangkok Night of Noir is the brainchild of writer James Newman. The venue, the Check Inn 99 is legendary, [...]
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. [...]
While I was at the UBUD Writers and Readers Festival in Bali last October, I took part in three panel discussions that have no gone online as audio files. You can listen to: Check out Forget the 60s, Writing to the Power of E and Give me the World. Other highlights include talks with Nick [...]
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 [...]
Happy holidays to everyone!!! This one is dedicated to all the angels in here…and everyone else really…but especially them… 2012 was a great year with too much work, the very best of times with good friends, lots of (mostly work related) travel and a master plan for the next one. It’s been a total adventure [...]