Psychology, economic, law and mathematics have interesting perspectives on the dynamics between two or more people who must decide to...

The 2013 Thai Most Wanted Hitmen list has 100 names. The 2011 list had only 75 names. That’s a 25% productivity and employment increase...

Most of the time we humans are predictable in our reaction to the success of others. Anger, jealous, envy, hatred and self-doubt spill...

On the 15th July 2009 a small group of writers joined together to write weekly essays for this blog—International Crime Authors Reality...

Author’s photographs fall into several categories. The most common is the best face photograph; the ego shining forth. I’ve had my share...

Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and John Paulos have written best selling books subjecting religion...

Theatre since the time of Greeks produced plays as a mirror to hold up to a society to see the reality of their existence. We are...

Bangkok this week has secured its reputation as the place (to borrow Maurice Sendak’s book title) Where the Wild Things Are. Wild things...

Some weeks provide an avalanche of events—enough to fill a book of essays. For example, a German national who’d finished serving a...

One of George Orwell’s most enduring essays is titled Shooting an Elephant. In the 1930s George Orwell served as a colonial official in...

In Bangkok and New York, Barney Rosset told me many stories about Henry Miller.  He’d published Miller and knew the author personally....

Dear Hunter, Your mother, Susan, who is a long-time reader of my books, asked me to suggest a reading list for your 16th birthday. What...

An investigative journalists in Southeast Asia is like the person walking point into a jungle filled with booby-traps, snipers and...

Some criminals start out young as they embark on a life of crime. Many reasons can be found to explain why someone turned ‘bad’ and...

Spirit Houses are a common sight in Thailand. They appear in front of factories, rice fields, houses, condominiums, restaurants, bars, ...

There’s a reason that the military, police and professional criminals use a 24 hour clock to co-ordinate ambush, surveillance, or other...

What controls Extremistan authors, what keeps them off the grid is an effective system of censorship backed by punitive laws. Unless...

What is the limit of our knowledge about the library of crime fiction novels written, published and read each year inside Extremistan?...

This is the first of a three-part series about Crime Fiction’s Extremistan. A discussion has started at Detectives Beyond Borders about...

You’ve decided to write that crime novel. The one book once released into the world will liberate you from the day job, put you on...