At the dawn of the industrial revolution, London was awash in gin. Getting drunk was a collective (and very public) way of spending free...

I recently gave an interview with the Dutch author Jochem Steen who is the man behind the Son of Sam website: “The cultural and political...

Yesterday morning I emerged from the MRT (subway/underground) only to find a virtual wall of police and police dogs at the stairs and...

Thomas Schmid wrote “Introducing Bangkok’s seamy side: Christopher G. Moore” in the Macau Times on Sunday 3 August. He writes about the...

Waking up on a Monday morning in Bangkok to find Spirit House on amazon/kindle’s website is a great way to start the week. The price ...

Most authors understand that without awareness of a book it is difficult to reach readers. Bloggers, some of whom are authors, offer...

Regulars of the Texas Lonestar Bar in Washington Square gathered to attend funeral services for George Pipas who died in Bangkok last...

The Independent on 22 July ran Jonathan Gibbs list of 80 detectives from around the world (in no apparent order) by city. Cities...

The Evergreen Review’s Jim Feast reviewed Risk: “For writers in the private eye genre, such as Christopher Moore, who take up the...

Glad to report that Zero Hour in Phnom Penh has been released in B-Format by Heaven Lake Press has been released. Third in the Vincent...

PAYIING BACK JACK, the 10th in the Calvino series will be released in Thailand in December 2008 and in 2009 by Atlantic Monthly Press...

It has been a good month for the Calvino series. My Spanish publisher Ediciones Paidós has released Kicking Boxing en Nirvana. My...

In cognitive science there is the notion of status quo bias, meaning people like things they way they are and rarely welcome change. ...

Alcoholics write books, too. Sometimes they write crime fiction. Sometimes they write literary works. No matter what form the novel...

The Timesonline has an interview/profile about Elizabeth George, an American, who has written a series of crime novels set in England....

Writers differ on their approach to creating fictional characters. In crime fiction, the background and relationship of the characters...

Crime fiction, film and art connect both City of Angels. At the hip. And at areas above the hip. In August, the crime thriller starring...

I have finished reading Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody. Here Comes Everybody and would like to my comments on the book. Shirky...

The British edition of The Risk of Infidelity Index is now out in Great Britain. You can buy it at Amazon for £7.79. Or better yet do go...

W.H. Auden wrote in The Guilty Vicarage, Notes on the detective story by an Addict, which appeared Harper’s in May 1948: “Actually,...