Eclectic crime fiction & informed, irreverent non-fiction from Asia & beyond
Over at Kobo, my new eco-thriller The Green Panthers is just 99 cents this weekend, through to Tuesday! Get your copy here!! Meet Clara Green, Emerald, Chartreuse, Olive, Hunter, Juniper and Forest. They are The Green Panthers: a privately sponsored, multi-national underground army, on a mission to hold corporate polluters to account. But SILEO is […]
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SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE Detective Maier is ten years old and all three books in my Detective Maier Mysteries series are now available in one volume! And now, for a few short days, Apple Books are selling the entire collection for just 99CENTS!! The Cambodian Book Of The Dead: In this thrilling tale, German […]
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I occasionally get letters from readers telling me that they loathe throwing money at Amazon to read my work. My publisher, Next Chapter, no longer exclusively deals with Amazon when it comes to ebooks (or any other format) and my books are more widely available now. All my fiction, 5 novels and a novella collection, […]
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The Green Panthers Manifesto The Green Panthers fight against the degradation of Planet Earth by any means The Green Panthers combat the fueling of climate change by any means The Green Panthers safeguard global biodiversity by any means The Green Panthers do not answer to governments The Green Panthers cannot be hired, bought or sold […]
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Happy New Year! Very excited that Colman’s Criminal Library reviewed Kolkata Noir. Kolkata Noir was a really enjoyable outing for me, not least because of its setting of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). With the exception of a couple of Brian Stoddart books (A Madras Miasma and The Pallampur Predicament) read years ago I haven’t visited India at […]
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What do you make of my favorite books on Thailand? Check out my latest rundown for Shepherd.
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I’m a writer and journalist with an eye on South and Southeast Asia. I first visited beautiful, land-locked, and sleepy Laos in 2000, as the country reluctantly reemerged from post-revolutionary isolation. I researched and co-wrote The Most Secret Place on Earth, a feature documentary on how the CIA created a clandestine army to fight Laotian […]
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Kolkata Noir received a new review! ….I found the last novella scary and imaginative, scary because if this does happen it is going to be a terrifying world to live in. Overall, an interesting, dark and in some ways chilling set of novellas based on Kolkata’s past, present and future. Read the full review here.
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An intriguing new review of The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu. “The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu tells the story of four men during a fateful trip in Asia that culminates 25 years later as each faces the repercussions of their initial trip and choices. Broken up into 6 parts that time jump between the initial trip […]
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One thing that I want to add is that the way the author illustrated Indian Culture(Bengali Culture) is speechless. I have never thought that a foreign author can write about Indian culture this well. The way the author explains the Rath Yatra(Indian festival) is wonderful. Read the full review of Kolkata Noir at The Books […]
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