Irreverent, informed and downright eclectic crime fiction and reportage from Southeast Asia and beyond
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 [...]
After having one of our titles, Mindfulness and Murder in the Top 100 Crime novels on Amazon this week, Crime Wave Press introduces it’s latest thriller: Gaijin Cowgirl by Jame DiBiasio. Gaijin Cowgirl is a high octane adventure introducing Val Benson, flaky Tokyo hostess and utterly unreliable protagonist who stumbles across a map to one [...]
Sister Suicide is the second Father Ananda Mystery, written by acclaimed American author Nick Wilgus and published by Crime Wave Press. A nun is torn apart by crocodiles in a Buddhist theme park. Is it a case of suicide or does a monastic community in the Thai provinces harbor a vicious killer? Father Ananda, Buddhist [...]
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 [...]
Hold your breath! Mark down the dates! Crime Wave Press will offer the high seas thriller Dead Sea by Sam Lopez for FREE as an e-book download from amazon on December 22,23 and 24! Check out this new fantastic review of the book on amazon by Sandeman: It’s been said that the start and end-points [...]
First published in 2006, this new edition of The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, my first novel, has been called a better backpacker novel than The Beach by The Bangkok Post and is now available as a Kindle ebook on amazon UK, published by Crime Wave Press. What’s inside: In 1976, four friends, Dan, Fred, Tim [...]
‘Blood’s dirt,’ he laughed, looking away Far off to where his wound had bled And almost merged for ever into clay. ‘The world is washing out its stains,’ he said. ‘It doesn’t like our cheeks so red: Young blood’s its great objection. But when we’re duly white-washed, being dead, The race will bear Field-Marshal God’s [...]
Tom Vater’s first novel, ‘The Devil’s Road To Kathmandu’, was published in Hong Kong with Dragon’s Mouth Press, an imprint of Orchid Press in 2006. Don Messerschmidt – The Nepali Times Follow the drugs, the money, the past. An old hippie returns to Kathmandu after 25 years. The Devil’s Road by Tom Vater is a [...]
When Dan, Tim and Fred, three naive hippies, set off from London to Kathmandu with few funds and a dodgy bus, a drug deal in Pakistan seems like the most common sense way to make the journey pay. But the mountains of the Hindu Kush, a mysterious Frenchman, a set of Iranian Siamese Twins cum nightclub singers, [...]