I’ve finished the 12th novel in the Vincent Calvino series—9 Gold Bullets—and have been reflecting over the course of this series, how I...

Everyone, it seems, has a complaint. Now and again. Some people complain more than others. You likely know someone who fits the bill. We...

"We should read to give our minds a chance to breathe the oxygen of ideas." —Christopher G. Moore

Review I place a lot of stock in authenticity when it comes to fiction. The best novels are written by authors who aren’t only talented...

Four of the Vincent Calvino series: Spirit House, Asia Hand, The Risk of Infidelity Index and Paying Back Jack are widely available in...

As an author of crime fiction, my literary world is thoroughly salted with violence. Like a good miner, I spend a great deal of time in...

The Black Cat (Grove imprint) edition of Asia Hand is now on sale at amazon.com for $9.45. This is the fourth novel in the Vincent...

Tomorrow 25 June I'll be blogging about the dismissal of General Stanley McChrystal. Below is the start of the essay: The Monopoly of...

Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you. —Winston Churchill

"Who are these people who spend so much of their days posting anonymous comments, and what is motivating them?" The Boston Globe weighs...

This question lies at the heart of a recent Guardian essay “The human heart of the matter” by Geoff Dyer. Dyer, himself a novelist, looks...

In the latest in the Vincent Calvino series, crime writer Christopher G. Moore does what he does best: kill someone and let the brash,...

The Hollywood Reporter says, “Screenwriter Chase Palmer has been hired to adapt the mystery novel “Spirit House,” written by...

At the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand on Thursday evening 10 June 2010 a large audience turned out to watch a series of videos...

Politics in Thailand, as in most countries, is a tug of war between the past and the future. The constitution and institutions function...

Tomorrow Friday, 11 June 2010, I'll post a blog on Bandwidth, Social Networks and Political Dissent. What is happens when geographic...

Who we are, how we feel about ourselves, not to mention how we organize our life is contingent on what we remember. Without our memory,...

The demonstrations have ended in Bangkok, but the Thai script wars continue. This reflects the fact that both the government and the...

The intention of this blog has been to connect reality with what is loosely called crime fiction. The reality checking asks: does a novel...

The subject of the panel was: Thailand in the Eyes of Others. The FCCT described the evening as follows: ________________________________...