crime writer – Tom Vater

Interviewed about Kolkata on Talk Travel Asia

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020tomLeave a Comment

I am talking about Kolkata, a city close to my heart, to Talk Travel Asia this week. I was in Kolkata as a participant of the Indo European Artist Residency last year. The Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan invited me to write crime fiction set in the West Bengal capital. The result, a series of novellas […]

A Prison Encounter With Charles Sobhraj, Asia’s Most Infamous Serial Killer: CriMemoir by Tom Vater

December 5, 2018December 5, 2018tomLeave a Comment

This is my first-person account of interviewing serial killer Charles Sobhraj in prison in Kathmandu in 2003. Indian parents tell their children that Charles Sobhraj will come and eat them if they are naughty. That’s what crossed my mind as I walked with Canadian photographer and documentary film maker Steve Sandford through the gate of […]

On Air in The Panic Room – Talking crime fiction

September 12, 2017tomLeave a Comment

Interview by Sonia Kilvington

May 25, 2017July 11, 2017tomLeave a Comment

I am interviewed this week by crime writer Sonia Kilvington on all things Crime Wave Press and my two Detective Maier mysteries, The Cambodian Book of the Dead and The Man with the Golden Mind. I first came to Cambodia in 1995, illegally on a speed boat from Trat to Koh Kong. Someone wrote that […]

Interview by Fiona McVie

April 30, 2017April 30, 2017tomLeave a Comment

I’ve been interviewed by Fiona McVie about my life as a writer. And here’s me with my friend and fellow Crime Wave Press owner Hans Kemp. Fiona: What book are you reading now? Just finished The Butterfly by James M Cain, about a man sleeping with his daughter. Not perhaps in the league as his […]

Tom Vater – Crime fiction writer, Journalist, Publisher – at Clippings.me

June 7, 2016June 7, 2016tomLeave a Comment

Here’s my new and very slick professional profile at Clippings.me. Thanks for taking a look. Sure beats LinkedIn.