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  • Short Cuts

    Collected Crime Fiction and Nonfiction in Smaller Doses

    by J.L. Abramo ...
    Twenty years after the appearance of his first published short story, One Hit Wonder, Shamus Award-winner J.L. Abramo has assembled a collection of his previously published short crime fiction along with never before published stories and writings about writing in this anthology.From the streets of Brooklyn and Denver; from Los Angeles to San Francisco; from private eyes and police detectives to ... Read more

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  • American History

    by J.L. Abramo ...
    The families of Salvatore Leone and Luigi Agnello had already been long-time bitter enemies in Sicily by the turn of the twentieth century.In 1914, Vincenzo Leone, Salvatore’s oldest son, emigrates to Philadelphia to start a new life for himself and his family in the promised land. Several years later, Giuseppe Agnello, Luigi’s eldest, secretly marries Francesca Leone, Vincenzo’s sister, and the ... Read more

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  • Catching Water in a Net

    by J.L. Abramo ...
    Series Book 1 - Jake Diamond
    Winner of the 2000 St. Martin's Press/PWA Award for Best First Private Eye Novel!San Francisco PI Jake Diamond is a hero who plays both sides of the private eye street. He is a careless dresser with a sloppy lifestyle and he couldn't keep his marriage from falling apart. But he also epitomizes the best of the modern shamus. He has the kinds of friends a man in his profession needs — jailbirds, mob ... Read more

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  • Brooklyn Justice

    by J.L. Abramo ...
    BROOKLYN JUSTICE is a wild ride through the streets of the Borough of Churches. Private investigator Nick Ventura knows trouble — but not how to keep his nose out of it. A pool of blood spreading across a casino poker table, a Buick plowing through a storefront with a dead detective aboard, a fatal rendezvous in the shadow of a Coney Island landmark, a childhood friend gunned down walking his dog ... Read more

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  • Counting to Infinity

    by J.L. Abramo ...
    Series Book 3 - Jake Diamond
    San Francisco private investigator Jake Diamond is known for his stained neckties and stash of sour-mash whiskey; but Jake is more likely to be toting a worn paperback Classic novel than a handgun. More over-easy than hard-boiled, Diamond can be beaten up and knocked around without taking it too personally; but when his friends and loved ones are threatened, it’s a different story.When a Chicago ... Read more

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  • Clutching at Straws

    by J.L. Abramo ...
    Series Book 2 - Jake Diamond
    The follow-up to the award-winning Catching Water in a Net…Lefty Wright had it all figured. In fact he was doing the math as he crawled into the deserted house through the kitchen window. Get to the bedroom, crack open the wall safe, grab the envelope, fifteen minutes. One thousand dollars a minute. Nice score.What Lefty neglected to factor in were the unknowns. And when the police nab him red ... Read more

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  • Circling the Runway

    by J.L. Abramo ...
    Series Book 4 - Jake Diamond
    Winner of the 2016 Shamus Award for Best Original Paperback PI Novel!Lieutenant Laura Lopez, Detective Ray Boyle, Joey Clams, Vinnie Strings and Darlene Roman are all back in the first new Jake Diamond escapade since COUNTING TO INFINITY.Private Investigator Jacob Diamond and San Francisco Detective Sergeant Roxton Johnson are famous for not getting along. Cats and dogs. Oil and water. Liston and ... Read more

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  • Homeland Insecurity

    The Birth of an Era of Unrest in America

    by J.L. Abramo ...
    Homeland Insecurity is, on one hand, the story of two men accused of taking the lives of three fellow human beings—a fifteen-year-old girl in Mahwah, New Jersey and two young police officers in El Segundo, California.Two men born 8 days apart in 1934.Two men who died 57 days apart in 2017.Crimes that were committed 140 days apart in 1957.At a time when Americans were beginning to feel less and ... Read more

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  • Chasing Charlie Chan

    A Jimmy Pigeon Mystery featuring P.I. Jake Diamond

    by J.L. Abramo ...
    Lenny Archer had more than a fair share of tough times and hard knocks, but he had finally decided to stay in the game rather than cash in his chips.Then, two late-night intruders at the private investigation office of Archer and Pigeon violently take the choice of life over death out of Lenny’s hands.Jimmy Pigeon is determined to discover who killed his friend and partner. He may have to learn ... Read more

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  • Coney Island Avenue

    by J.L. Abramo ...
    The dog days of August in Brooklyn and the detectives of the 61st Precinct are battling to keep all hell from breaking loose.Innocents are being sacrificed in the name of greed, retribution, passion and the lust for power—and the only worthy opponent of this senseless evil is the uncompromising resolve to rise above it, rather than descend to its depths.The heart pounding sequel to the acclaimed ... Read more

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  • Gravesend

    by J.L. Abramo ...
    A roller-coaster ride worthy of Coney Island…On an afternoon in early February, the neighborhood is stunned and horrified when the lifeless body of an eight-year-old boy is discovered abandoned on the roof of an apartment building.The body has been mysteriously mutilated.No clues, no witnesses, no apparent reason.When a second boy is found two days later in the same condition, Homicide Detectives ... Read more

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  • Crossing the Chicken

    by J.L. Abramo ...
    Series Book 5 - Jake Diamond Mystery
    San Francisco. Late September, 2004.The Giants are hanging on to the slim hope of a spot in the Major League baseball playoffs.The Forty-Niners are hoping for their first win of the season after three losses.Vinnie “Strings” Stradivarius is in the intensive care ward at St. Francis Memorial Hospital—and Jake Diamond is hoping Vinnie will both survive and avoid a homicide indictment if he pulls ... Read more

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