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Andrew Diamond

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Andrew Diamond writes mystery, crime, noir, and an occasional comedy. His books feature cinematic prose, strong characterization, twisting plots, and dark humor. Amazon editors named Impala a best of the month mystery, and IndieReader named it to their best of 2016 list. Impala also won the Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal for mystery and the 24th Annual Writer’s Digest award for genre fiction.

Gate 76 was named named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2018, while BestThrillers.com selected both Gate 76 (2018) and To Hell with Johnny Manic (2019) to their best of the year lists. The Sellout (2024) won the IndieReader Discovery Award for humor.

His next book, Grid Zero, will be available on June 30, 2025.

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Gate 76 (Freddy Ferguson, #1)

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To Hell with Johnny Manic

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A Shining Affliction

A Shining Affliction is Annie G. Rogers’ account of the mutual healing that occurred between her, acting as a therapist, and a five-year-old boy named Ben, who had been terribly neglected as a child. Ben is untrusting, frequently unmanageable, and often violent. His clinical record notes that after the death of his biological mother, while he was still an infant, he was given to a foster family. H

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Spare prose indeed. This is a story of obsession as much as passion. I wonder if some of the author's obsession comes from the fact that she cannot contact her lover. He is married, and she doesn't want to tip his wife off to their affair. So she has ...more
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“It scares you to think of having someone else’s heart in your hands when you can’t even manage your own life. I know”
Andrew Diamond, Warren Lane

“I think an author who writes crappy novels should be punished by having to live inside the novel of an even crappier author”
Andrew Diamond, The Sellout

“An author is like a mafia boss. He's gotta shepherd a bunch of characters through a plot. He has to maintain control. Any gets outta line, they have to go”
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