Major political demonstrations are rocking Bangkok. Chaos and fear sweep through the Thai and expatriate communities. Calvino steps into the political firestorm as he investigates a drug piracy operation. The piracy is traced to a powerful business interest protected by important political connections....

Heaven Lake Press (2007), 324 pp.

Inside a secluded, lush estate located on the edge of Pattaya, an eccentric Englishman's gardener is found hanged. Calvino has been hired to investigate. Calvino finds himself pulled deep into the shadows of the war against drugs, into the empire of a local warlord with the trail leading to a terrorist who has caused Code Orange alerts to flash across the screen of American intelligence. In a story packed with twists and turns, Calvino traces the links from the gardener's past to the door of men with power and influence who have everything to lose if the mystery of the gardener's death is solved....

First edition (2004) Trade paperback Heaven Lake Press, 305 pp.
Mass paperback Heaven Lake Press (2008), 351 pp.

Minor Wife is the seventh novel in the internationally acclaimed Vincent Calvino private eye series. A contemporary murder mystery set in Bangkok--a neighbor and friend, a young ex-prostitute turned artist, is found dead by an American millionaire's minor wife....

Heaven Lake Press (2004), 297 pp.

Five foreigners have died in Bangkok. Drug overdose victims or victims of a serial killer? Calvino believes a serial killer is stalking tourists in Bangkok. The Thai cops including Colonel Pratt don’t buy his theory....

Heaven Lake Press (2004), 342 pp.

The Year of the Rat. Private eye Vincent Calvino has been hired by Quentin Stuart, a dying Hollywood screenwriter. His assignment is to investigate the apparent suicide of Samantha McNeal, the daughter of Quentin's ex-agent. Sam died from a single bullet wound in the head. While working on the case, Calvino gains access to the inner circle of expats seeking the Hollywood dream in Bangkok. It is this world of writers, actors, producers, and wanna-be's, that Calvino seeks the truth of Sam's death ....

Mass paperback Heaven Lake Press (2008), 345 pp.

Saigon--The American embargo is lifted. Business is booming in Vietnam and in austere Ho Chi Minh City a new generation of foreigners have come to make money and not war....

Current edition (2001) Heaven Lake Press, 267 pp.

Phnom Penh - UNTAC peacekeeping forces maintain fragile peace in Cambodia. Gun running, smuggling, illegal logging, robbery, and prostitution, are all life. Corruption is everywhere, life is cheap. And the sound of gunfire erupts nightly from illegal checkpoints....

Heaven Lake Press (2005), 287pp.

Bangkok - the Year of the Monkey. Private investigator Vincent ("Vinee") Calvino's New Year celebration ends when Jerry Hutton, wearing a necklace of wooden penises, is pulled dead from Lumpini Park Lake. Cable TV shows dramatic footage of several Burmese soldiers on the Thai border executing students in cold blood. Hutton was the cameraman....

Current edition (2000) Heaven Lake Press, 277 pp.

Spirit House pulls you into a multinational demimonde that gets more real that the other half. Vincent ("Vinee") Calvino, ex-New Yorker, has a "Calvino's law" on tap for the ins and outs of the underbelly of life and sudden death. Calvino ranks in the grand tradition of private investigators, yet remains a winner. The riverboat shootout is a classic. Over the hard clip of action presides the mystic atmosphere of a Bangkok dotted with spirit houses....

Current edition (2004) Heaven Lake Press, 306 pp.