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St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Award Winner
THE JAKE DIAMOND NOVELS
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San Francisco private investigator Jake Diamond is so much in the mold of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, you can practically hear Hammett and Chandler muttering from the great beyond about copyright infringement. But author J.L. Abramo nevertheless serves up a refreshingly old-school treat with his debut novel, Catching Water in a Net. Abramo shows a clear flair for the genre, and wisely keeps the twists coming fast enough that readers have no choice but to keep turning pages.
-David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle
Abramo's prize-winning novel brings back the spirit of Raymond Chandler, Spillane and countless other tough-guy P.I. authors in a way that's original while paying tribute to its genre predecessors.
-William Starr, The State
Meet Jake Diamond, a San Francisco PI who is more over-easy than hard-boiled, needs lots
of help but is afraid to ask, has a difficult time keeping his neckties stain free, guzzles bourbon and antacid with equal ineffectiveness, and can’t get enough of Dickens and Dumas.
As much as he could use the work, Jake is not anxious to take on the case of a missing husband. Jake has learned from experience that being a missing husband is not necessarily a bad thing to be, particularly if the husband in question is a murder suspect.
Jake’s friend and mentor, Jimmy Pigeon, who inspired Jake to trade his Screen Actors’ Guild card for a private investigator’s license, had taught Diamond well. “Whenever I’m asked to locate a missing spouse,” Jimmy said, “the words ‘no, but thanks for asking’ always come to mind.” Diamond is all set to live by those words until he discovers that the murder victim was Jimmy Pigeon himself.
Determined to discover the identity of Pigeon’s killer, Diamond scrambles between Los Angeles and San Francisco following leads that range from weak to delusional. With the help of his trusty and sarcastic assistant, Darlene Roman, compulsive gambler Vinnie Stradivarius, and Italian-American ‘businessman’ Joey Russo; Jake slowly uncovers the motives behind the death of Jimmy Pigeon. Along the way, Jake trips over the bodies of a few other hapless victims, dodges mob hit men and over-zealous police detectives, and finds the case swimming with characters from his past.
Catching Water in a Net offers a tasty recipe for mystery; a perfect blend of surprises and humor that will keep the reader in suspense and in stitches.
Abramo echoes themes from some of the great crime writers past and present, adding a great deal of his own...handled with aplomb and wit - John Dantzler, Co-author Hiking South Carolina
First novelist Abramo has the hard-boiled private eye formula down pat -- the novel is solidly written and captures the mood of the genre - Booklist
Fast-paced...ought to please pulp diehards - Kirkus Reviews
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Coming from St. Martin's Press
JAKE DIAMOND IS BACK
Out of the frying pan...and into the line of fire.
CLUTCHING
AT STRAWS
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