Writer Marco Ferrarese interviews Tom Vater
Writer Marco Ferrarese interviews me about Crime Wave Press, The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu and travel in Asia on his blog MonekyRockWorld. Read the first part of the interview here.
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Writer Marco Ferrarese interviews me about Crime Wave Press, The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu and travel in Asia on his blog MonekyRockWorld. Read the first part of the interview here.
Continue ReadingI have been interviewed about my first novel The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, about my fiction imprint Crime Wave Press and my writing career by Al Guthrie for Criminal-E, a British crime fiction blog promoting today’s leading crime writers. Read the interview here. Buy The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu here. Buy The Cambodian Book of […]
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Continue ReadingThe Cambodian Book of the Dead, published by Crime Wave Press has garnered another great review on amazon by American writer and Asia expert Janet Brown. “Tom Vater clearly knows the country and its history; his descriptions of Cambodia and his careful interweaving of its Pol Pot years bring a dimension to this book that […]
Continue ReadingMy fiction imprint Crime Wave Press and my first novel The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu get a mention on celebrated crime fiction blog Pattinase… a big thanks for the opportunity to announce our current search for crime writers…
Continue Reading“Mee and Ow sat in the shade of a mango tree and were doing their make-up. Both of them wore gloves that reached all the way up to their elbows, to keep the tropical sun off their skins. They looked briefly at Maier, with the curiosity usually reserved for a passing dog. It was too […]
Continue ReadingThe second Crime Wave Press publication to hit the digital shelves, my very own The Cambodian Book of the Dead, is reviewed at Crime Fiction Lover this week… “The narrative is fast-paced and the frequent action scenes are convincingly written. The smells and sounds of Cambodia are vividly brought to life, and aficionados of this […]
Continue ReadingMy second novel, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, is featured at Noir Nation Magazine with a 1200 word excerpt. Noir Nation called the book Asian Noir, for which I’m grateful. Read the excerpt here. Buy the book at amazon or amazon UK.
Continue ReadingThe Cambodian Book of the Dead is in the Top 100 Hardboiled novels on amazon UK! About the book: Cambodia 2001 – a country re-emerges 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 […]
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