Andrew Diamond

Alexander Starritt’s We Germans tells the story of a small group of German soldiers retreating from the disastrous invasion of Russia in 1944.

James Ellroy’s Blood on the Moon introduces LAPD Detective Sargent Lloyd Hopkins, a “genius” homicide investigator with a reputation for solving tough cases.

The Cocktail Waitress was the last book James M.

Archivists preserve cultural artifacts and do their best to make them accessible to future generations.

In The Hiding Girl, Dorian Box’s tough and resourceful young protagonist, Emily Calby, flees a horrific murder and spends months on the streets and on the run.

Edward Viljoen’s Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God Retold in Simplified English is sort of a CliffsNotes retelling of the Hindu classic.

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The Troubled Man is the final installment in Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series, and the only one of the series I’ve read.

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Jean-Patrick Manchette’s No Room at the Morgue is the first book I’ve read from NYRB Classics that’s just flat out bad.

I wanted to like George Pelecanos’ The Cut, but it left me a little cold.

In the opening of Day Keene’s Bring Him Back Dead, sheriff’s deputy Andy Latour seems to be stuck in the wrong job and the wrong marriage.

I’m often disappointed by contemporary mystery and thriller bestsellers.

Bruce Thornton is a classics professor at Cal State Fresno and a fellow at the Hoover Institution.

One of the downsides of indie publishing is that there are so many titles out there, it’s hard for the good ones to get attention.

These five works show Millar to be a brilliant mystery/suspense writer.

Margaret Millar’s The Listening Walls opens in a room in the Windsor Hotel in Mexico City in the late 1950’s.

Phew!

I’m generally not a big fan of spy thrillers, but I wanted to read this one because so many fans of the genre consider it a classic.

The Woman in White opens with a mysterious encounter between artist Walter Hartright and an unnamed woman dressed entirely in white.

Stanislaw Lem’s His Master’s Voice is science fiction of the highest order: a meditation on man’s place in the cosmos, an examination of the limits of our knowledge, and a scathing condemnation of how politics influences the practice of science.

The Hiding Girl begins with an ominous scene.

Margaret Millar’s 1957 novel has a simple setup: a bunch of men in their late thirties are meeting for a weekend away from the wives and kids at a remote country lodge to fish, play poker, and drink.

Usually, when I finish reading a book, I write a thousand-word review.

My designer, the brilliant and stunning Lindsay Heider Diamond , has come up with yet another excellent cover for my next book.

Charles Brandt, an attorney from Delaware, spent years interviewing Mafia hit man Frank Sheeran.

I finally got around to reading this, three years after it was recommended to me by a pair of retired federal agents who had spent much of their careers pursuing drug runners in South Texas.

Bob Hartley’s North and Central opens in a bar in a working neighborhood of Chicago in the late 1970s.

In the opening scene of Charles Willeford’s Pick Up, counterman Harry Jordan is wrapping up a long day’s work in a San Francisco diner in the early 1950s.

Published in 1966, One Fearful Yellow Eye is the eighth book in John D.

Margaret Millar’s Beast in View opens with thirty-year-old Helen Clarvoe receving an unnerving, vaguely threatening phone call from a woman who claims to have once been her friend.

John Temple’s American Pain describes the rise and fall of America’s largest pill mill.

The opening chapter of Wake Up, Wanda Wiley is available on BookishFirst this week, January 13-20, 2020.

Nick Bilton’s American Kingpin describes the rise and fall of the darknet market The Silk Road, and its creator, Ross Ulbricht.

This is one brutal book, and a damn good one.

I just finished a draft of a new novel, tentatively titled Evidence of Aggression.

The Body Keeps the Score describes what Dr.

After months away from the keyboard, I’ve started work on a new novel, a mystery/thriller with a female protagonist.

Margaret Millar was best known for her mystery and suspense novels.

Readers’ Favorite posted the first review of Wake Up, Wanda Wiley today, giving it the full five stars.

To Hell with Johnny Manic is on sale this week on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.

My next book will be available on November 1, 2019.

Margaret Millar’s Vanish in an Instant opens with a rich, cranky old woman arriving at the Detriot airport in December, 1950 to try to extricate her spoiled daughter, Virginia, from some trouble.

Johnny Manic came out on August first.

Eight Million Ways to Die is the fifth in Lawrence Block’s Matthew Scudder detective series.

Dopefiend by Donald Goines opens in a shooting gallery on the east side of Detriot.

The Billion Dollar Whale, by Wall Street Journal reporters Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, describes the looting of Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign wealth fund by con man Jho Low and his associates.

Black Money is the thirteenth book in Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer series.

BestThrillers.com The first advance copies of Johnny Manic went out two months ago, and I’m starting to get some good feedback.

This is a good overview of the basic tenets and flavor of world’s major religions.