Eclectic crime fiction & informed, irreverent non-fiction from Asia & beyond
Anda at The Busy Shelf wrote a great review for Kolkata Noir At 148 pages, Kolkata noir surprises with its rich number of characters. Madhurima and Becker interact with lots of other people, be they recurring or specific to each story.… Madhurima is related to a very important personality in the police force. As a […]
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Read And Review It kindly read and reviewed Kolkata Noir, my new crime fiction novel. Kolkata Noir is an intriguing crime fiction following two protagonists – Becker and Madhurima, who are both detectives. The novella is split into three different parts (the past, present and future) and spans over a total of forty years. Each […]
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Distant cousins, there’s a limited supply.And we’re down to the dozens, and this is why:Kolkata Noir is just 99 CENTS for the next five days at Amazon US and Amazon UK. http://mybook.to/kolkatanoir And here’s a super kind review by Julie S Porter, recently posted on Amazon. Tom Vater’s Kolkata Noir is a tribute to the […]
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Writer Isobel Blackthorn dropped a wonderful review of The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu. The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu is as much an atmospheric and absorbing read as it is fast-paced entertainment. It’s 1975, and four young men in an old Bedford van pull up in the Hindu Kush on the Peshawar-Kabul road to follow through […]
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The Audio Book edition of The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu is out!! In 1976, four friends – Dan, Fred, Tim, and Thierry – are on a bus along the hippie trail from London to Kathmandu. But everything is not going according to plan. After a drug deal goes wrong, the boys barely escape with their […]
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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 […]
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The Man With The Golden Mind, republished as ebook, paperback, large print hard back and audio book by Next Chapter very soon!
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I received another wonderful review of Kolkata Noir by books_by_the_bottle on Instagram. Thank you! “From the first few sentences of this book, I was immediately drawn into this crime fiction story. Tom Vater’s writing flows so smoothly and the imagery he creates is beautiful. This book is divided into three smaller parts, and follows the […]
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