Andrew Diamond

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Andrew Diamond writes mystery, crime, noir, and an occasional comedy.

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Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time is the fifth in a series of mysteries featuring inspector Alan Grant.

The Girl on the Velvet Swing tells the story of the 1906 murder of famed American architect Stanford White, who was shot to death before a crowd of New York’s elite at the opening night performance of a play at Madison Square Garden, one of the city’s arc…

My next book, To Hell with Johnny Manic, is now available for review on NetGalley .

This book, set in London in 1941 during the blitz, begins with a man on the outs, Arthur Rowe, strolling through a church fair fundraiser.

It’s hard to write of a review of Alan Watts’ books because there’s so much in them.

Hallas’ novel opens with Richard Dempsey returning from a long day’s work at the diner to an empty house.

I received the UK edition of this book as a gift a few months ago (it won’t be published in the US until later in 2019).

Woolrich is a master of suspense and a brilliant writer.

The most disturbing thing about this book is that the vapid, false, and mind-numbing world that the media produces and the population so whole-heartedly consumes is so much like our own.

This book reads like a transcription of talks given before live audiences.

In this extraordinarily beautiful and deep short novel, author Cynan Jones follows four characters through a summer day on a draught-stricken farm in Wales.

Thanks to my artist/designer wife for this lovely cover.

Kerry Cohen’s Loose Girl is a memoir of emotional need in which the author recounts the compulsive sexual promiscuity of her teens and twenties and the underlying feelings of loneliness and desperation that drove that behavior.

David Howard’s Chasing Phil follows the story of two agents from the FBI’s Gary, Indiana office who go undercover to infiltrate a ring of stunningly audacious and startlingly successful con men in the mid-1970s.

Gate 76 was named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2018 .

Williams is one of the great underappreciated American crime writers of the 20th century.

This is a superb piece of journalism and one of the best true crime books I’ve read.

Patrick Hamilton’s The Slaves of Solitude is set in a boarding house in the London suburb of Thames Lockdon during the winter of 1943.

I picked this up after the New York Times ran a belated obituary for Marthe McKenna in September, 2018.

I can’t believe I’ve gone this long without discovering Cornell Woolrich.

This book contains some brilliant writing and colorful characters.

BestThrillers.com just listed Gate 76 on their “Best of the 2018 So Far” list, right after The President Is Missing, by James Patterson and Bill Clinton.

Gate 76 just picked up a couple more nice reviews.

Here’s a nice bit of news.

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Gate 76 is available for pre-order on IndieBound, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and a number of independents like Politics and Prose.

A mysterious woman fleeing an unknown terror boards the wrong plane at San Francisco International and disappears into the heart of the country.

I read a lot of classic crime fiction, and when I go back to the best writers in the genre, I consistently find that they pack more substance, insight, and emotional weight into 200 pages than today’s bestselling authors can get into 500 pages.

Charles Williams’ The Big Bite is very good crime/noir thriller, though it’s not quite up there with his brilliant 1953 noir The Hot Spot .

This classic has good suspense and, as always from Levin, is well plotted.

Harry Madox has drifted in and out of a number of jobs, and has one failed marriage and some unspecified debts under his belt.

After two rounds with the editor and many drafts, Gate 76 is just about ready for the proofreader.

This is an excellent mystery/suspense novel, with plenty of twists.

This is a brilliant book by a brilliant writer.

I forgot how beautiful and inspiring this city is.

ReadersFavorite.com announced the winners of their 2017 awards contest yesterday.

The Bestseller Code , by Jodie Archer and Matthew L.

Back in April of this year, I was heading to south Florida to present at a conference at the University of Miami.

Normally, I don’t read anything about vampires, the undead, or a zombie apocalypse because the tropes have become tired and worn out.

Reading Wilkie Collins was a revelation to me.

The narrator of We, D-503, is a mathematician and engineer, the primary designer of a rocket called the INTEGRAL.

This is the first I’ve read from Gardner, and it’s a good one.

I’ve read many of Greene’s books, and this is the most powerful and intense of the lot.

A few months ago, my wife brought home a book by Micheal Tolkin called Among the Dead .

This book is dark, in the vein of Jim Thompson and Elliott Chaze.