Andrew Diamond

Scott Peck’s People of the Lie proposes that psychology should begin a formal scientific study of evil, and that evil should be added as a diagnosis in American psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

We first meet Norwood Pratt, a red-haired twenty-three-year-old from Ralph, Texas, as he’s being discharged from the Marines on account of family hardship.

A number of readers have commented on Goodreads and Amazon that my detective Freddy Ferguson reminds them of Robert B.

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This is the first Elmore Leonard book I’ve read that just didn’t do it for me.

Elmore Leonard’s Glitz opens with Miami Beach detective Vincent Mora getting shot by a dopesick junkie in his way home from the grocery store.

The unnamed narrator of Gabriel García Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold pieces together a picture of events that unfolded on an infamous day twenty three years prior.

Meursault, the main character of Albert Camus’ The Stranger, is so passive and indifferent, he simply lets life happen to him, and what happens isn’t good.

In The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker examines the central and unique tension of the human creature: we are going to die, and unlike other animals, we know we’re going to die.

This book came to my attention when the Independent Book Publishers Association named it as a finalist for the 2023 Franklin Award.

The Kindle edition of The Reisman Case is free April 21-25, 2023.

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Sunburn opens with a thrirty-something man, Adam Bosk, observing a thirty-something woman, Polly Costello, in a roadside restaurant in the small town of Belleville, Delaware.

David Gordon’s unique thriller opens with a series of police raids in New York City.

The plot was good enough, but this one fell short on several levels, reading like a journeyman’s immitation of a John D.

Ordo, a novella of just 73 pages, is the second work in Hard Case Crime’s Double Feature.

A Travesty is the first of two short novels in Donald Westlake’s Double Feature.

Stephen Galloway’s Truly, Madly describes the long and tragic arc of one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary love affairs.

Perry Mason makes his first appearance in The Case of the Velvet Claws.

Gregg Allman’s memoir, My Cross to Bear, covers a lot of ground, from the murder of his father to the musician’s coming to terms with his own fatherhood late in life.

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The premis of The Holographic Universe is not that the universe is a literal holograph, but that a holograph may be the best metaphor for understanding the universe.

I graduated college way back in 1990, in the midst of an economic recession.

Everything in this book is common sense, but it’s the kind of common sense people need to be reminded of all the time.

Kill Romeo is now available on Amazon.com.

Fabian Nicieza’s Suburban Dicks opens with the murder of a gas station attendant in West Windsor, New Jersey.

Hammett’s books are dense with action and full of twists.

The second book in the Freddy Ferguson series, Kill Romeo, goes on sale July 2, 2022.

Jim Thompson sure can be bleak.

Bad Boy was Jim Thompson’s first take at autobiography.

Devil in a Blue Dress is the first installment in Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins series.

This is the first I’ve read of Simenon’s Maigret series.

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I just published a guide for indie authors called A Practical Guide to Self-Publishing , also known as TitlesToMarket.com .

There’s an old parable about a conversation between a Native American boy and his father.

Emily Calby is twenty now.

In this superbly written overview of the Western philosophical tradition, William Barrett traces the roots of 20th century existentialism back through Hegel, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard all the way to the Greek and Hebrew traditions that formed the foundat…

The title alone made me want to read this one.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch opens in New York City in an unnamed year of the twenty-first century.

Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest is mayhem from beginning to end.

The Coddling of the American Mind examines the political left’s intolerance of challenging and uncomfortable ideas, especially as it appears among the young on college campuses throughout the US.

The Plains of Cement is the third and final book in Patrick Hamilton’s Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky collection, which follows three down-and-out characters through the streets of London in the fall and early winter of 1929.

The Siege of Pleasure, the second book in Patrick Hamilton’s 1930’s London trilogy Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, picks up just days after the end of book one.

Bob, a waiter at a London saloon called The Midnight Bell, leads a relatively simple life.

Ben Fox from BookDNA.com recently asked me to write about five of my favorite books in any genre.

Paul Bradley Carr’s 1414° is a satirical thriller that reads like Carl Hiaasen’s take on Silicon Valley, “An industry built on the promise of limitless memory, by people who can’t remember what happened last week.”

[Note: This book’s preface claims it’s based on a true story.

A few months ago, I bought a RadCity 4 electric bike from Rad Power Bikes.

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I recently had the pleasure of reading Charles Farrell’s Low(life): A Memoir of Jazz, Fight-Fixing and the Mob.