Press & Reviews

The Vincent Calvino series belongs on every Asian crime list.

— Booklist

Moore’s flashy style successfully captures the dizzying contradictions in [Bangkok’s] vertiginous landscape.

— Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

Vincent Calvino is one of the most notable detectives of modern crime literature.

— Harmut Wilmes, Klönische Rundschau

Moore’s Vincent Calvino novels are crisp, atmospheric entertainments set in a noirish Bangkok.

— The Guardian

A vivid sense of place the city of Bangkok, with its chaos and mystery, is almost another character. Recommended.

— Library Journal

Every big city has its fictional detective; and Bangkok’s is Vincent Calvino.

— Bangkok 101

Think Dashiell Hammett in Bangkok.

— The San Francisco Chronicle

Christopher G. Moore’s Vincent Calvino series is not only a fine collection of finely calibrated mysteries, it’s also a chronicle of major upheavals — political, criminal, pathological and even psychosexual — that have rocked Southeast Asia over the last two decades.

— Jim Algie, The Nation