Vic Warren: 8 books

Buried treasure, high adventure and romance. These are the key ingredients that make Vic Warren’s novel, Stairway of the Gods, a page turner. Explorers and treasure hunters have speculated on whether the story of World War II Japanese officer, General Tomoyuki Yamashita’s buried treasure in the Philippines,...

Vic Warren's third book is a Hitchcock-style thriller called Hong Kong Blues, which opens with a fairy-tale wedding ceremony being performed on a luxury yacht in Hong Kong harbor. Megan Deschamps, a Grammy-nominated jazz singer, and Chris Girolami, a Microsoft millionaire, are tying the knot. As the...

The Gift and The Shot are two shorter works somewhere between short stories and novellas. In The Gift, media frenzy hits Hong Kong when a murderer they call the New Year’s Avenger spoils the beloved Lunar New Year’s holiday. And The Shot has Kwong and Matson spending a day at the races, before traveling up to Guangzhou on the trail of a deadly assassin.

The Quartz is the first in a new series called The Inspector Kwong Mysteries, based on characters from Warren’s novel, Hong Kong Blues. The Quartz is not a whodunnit. It tracks the action in Hong Kong and Beijing of both Chief Inspector Lawrence Kwong and the villain, Vice Premier Xiao Mingyu, the...

The second of The Inspector Kwong Mysteries, The River builds a double tale of a brutal kidnapping and a drawing room mystery straight out of the game of Clue. It’s peppered with romance, humor, a viral manhunt and a couple of straight shots of Scotch. Huang Long Wei was dead. But before he dies, the...

Kwong and Matson end up in hot water with Chief Luk before he sends them both on vacation to save them and his budget. Deciding to visit some of Kwong’s old friends in San Francisco, they encounter Kwong’s one great love and murder most deadly. Matson discovers Stone Arrogant Bastard, and the two...

Girl on a Dolphin is Book Two in the exciting series, The Neptune Chronicles, which deals with the present-day discovery of a race of underwater humans. “After this, what kind of songs do you think they’ll be singing about her over their beers, mate? She’s legend.” In a way, that sums up my newest...

Jamie Edmondson is friends with nearly everybody, as long as they don’t disagree with his strident views on the environment. When he leads an expedition to the discovery of a new race of humans who live under the sea, things change. That’s when he meets some really bad people who don’t like humans...