J. L. Abramo

J. L. ABRAMO was born in the seaside paradise of Brooklyn, New York on Raymond Chandler's fifty-ninth birthday. Abramo earned a BA in Sociology at the City College of New York and a Masters in Social Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. Abramo is the author of CATCHING WATER IN A NET, winner of the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America prize for Best First Private Eye Novel; the subsequent Jake Diamond novels CLUTCHING AT STRAWS, COUNTING TO INFINITY, CIRCLING THE RUNWAY (Shamus Award Winner) and CROSSING THE CHICKEN; CHASING CHARLIE CHAN, a prequel to the Jake Diamond series; the stand-alone thrillers GRAVESEND, BROOKLYN JUSTICE, CONEY ISLAND AVENUE (a sequel to GRAVESEND) and AMERICAN HISTORY; and the non-fiction/true crime epic, HOMELAND INSECURITY.