Eclectic crime fiction & informed, irreverent non-fiction from Asia & beyond
My very first novel, The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, first published by Dragon’s Mouth Press (HK) in 2006, then republished by Crime Wave Press (HK) in 2013, then published in Spanish by Xplora Editorial in 2014, has got a new and wonderful lease of life. Next Chapter Publishing are putting out a newly edited edition […]
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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 […]
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Very happy to have one of my short stories – Bag Times at the Blue Parrot – published in Face Masks and Hand Gels, a Covid-inspired literary anthology published by the Howl Literary Cooperative in Cambodia. Read Bag Times at the Blue Parrot here.
Continue ReadingBritish publisher Close to the Bone have just released my latest short story, Friday. On a Monday. I’d returned early from the jungle party. The drugs hadn’t agreed with me. Definitely shouldn’t have broken into that second packet of ketamine, like a thief in the night.That was two weeks ago on the full moon night. […]
Continue ReadingTroubled Waters, the first novella I wrote with Laure Siegel for Ecoute Magazine, the story of a surfer who dies under mysterious circumstances on La Reunion Island, is out now in Le Phare de L’Enfer (The Lighthouse from Hell), a new anthology of crime stories for French learners in Germany. Our fourth novella ‘I Want […]
Continue ReadingMy short story Bag Times at the Blue Parrot is soon to be published in a new anthology published by Howl in Cambodia. Face Masks and Hand Gels: A Year of Living Covidly is the first book by the literary organization. Howl’s founder, Wayne McCallum says, “The book features poems and prose from the Lockdown […]
Continue ReadingJD Strange aka Bangkok based writer and film producer James Newman interviewed me on Bangkok crime fiction for Strange TV. This is a segment from a longer documentary on Bangkok fiction, currently in production. Thanks, James! Watch the interview here. All my crime fiction titles are currently published by Crime Wave Press.
Continue ReadingBritish crime fiction imprint Close to the Bone published my short story The Elephant in the Room, set in the drug addled backpacker scene of southern Thailand. The bungalow burst open, the flimsy lock ripped from the door frame and clattering to the floor.“Where’s Jimmy?”Zoe shot up from the bed and shrunk back against the […]
Continue ReadingI just edited JD Strange’s Port of Thieves, a brilliant rough ride of a pirate novella and probably the most fun adventure story I’ve worked on. The only way you can enjoy life is to set sail on a ship such as this and leave every idea of normality behind in the dusty city. The […]
Continue Reading‘New museum in city’s infamous Patpong red light zone reveals the CIA agents who used to hold court in its go-go bars’ I was interviewed by Richard S. Ehrlich on the CIA’s history in Bangkok in Asia Times today for his article ‘Glorifying sex and CIA in Vietnam War-era Bangkok‘. “A photo of one of […]
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