Christopher G. Moore is a Canadian author who has lived in Bangkok since 1988. Before turning to fiction, he was a tenured law professor at the University of British Columbia and a practicing lawyer with a first-class degree from Oxford. He left that world behind for Southeast Asia, and has spent the decades since writing his way through it.
He is the author of more than 39 books of fiction and non-fiction. His nineteen-novel Vincent Calvino series — following a New York lawyer turned Bangkok private eye across three decades of the city’s upheavals — has won the Shamus Award and the German Critics Award, and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. The series has earned sustained critical attention from The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle, Booklist, and Library Journal, among others.
Moore’s writing extends well beyond crime fiction. His essays and non-fiction works engage with human nature, culture, power, justice, and the consequences of technological change for society and human rights. He is the founder of the Christopher G. Moore Foundation, which since 2017 has awarded an annual literary prize to works advancing awareness of human rights. He is also the founder of the Changing Climate, Changing Lives Film Festival.
His nineteenth Calvino novel, The Client That Wasn’t There, set in Bangkok in 2036, was published in 2026.
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