Esther Diamond (7 books in series)

Polterheist (2012)
language
English
author
3.89 of 5 Votes: 3
review 1: As luck would have it, I picked this up the week before Christmas without knowing it was a Christmas book, so it it got some bonus points right off the bat. In this one Esther is working as a department store elf... Dreidel, Santa's Jewish elf. There are, of course, multiple elve...
The Misfortune Cookie (2013)
language
English
author
3.69 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: In this, the sixth book in the series, we pick up a week after the events in "Polterheist". Esther is working at Stella's waiting for her next acting gig and she is obsessing about Lopez's failure to call her after that night in the sack. In fact the first fourth of the book is p...
Doppelgangsters (2006)
language
English
author
3.74 of 5 Votes: 3
review 1: 3.5 stars.This is the second Esther Diamond book, and Esther and Max get involved in another mystery that seems to be impossible. Gangsters see their perfect double and then die a short time later. Of course no one believes them but when Esther sees both the double and the origin...
Dopplegangster (2010)
language
English
author
3.74 of 5 Votes: 4
review 1: 3.5 starsEsther is an actress in NYC, currently working as a singing waitress at a restaurant known to be frequented by gangsters. On one of her shifts, a mafia don is shot at what is calculated to be an impossible angle. Then the mystery deepens as duplicated gangsters begin to...
Unsympathetic Magic (2010)
language
English
author
3.77 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: In this one Esther has scored a small part on a cop show called The Dirty Thirty. While out on location for some filming one night she sees a guy get attacked by things that look like gargoyles. After much confusion and misunderstanding (based on her costume) when Esther finally ...
Vamparazzi (2011)
language
English
author
3.88 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: 3.5 stars. This was a fun addition to the Esther Diamond series. We get some flashbacks to Max's past and finally find out the big deal about Lithuanians. Resnick continues with the trend of telegraphing the villain way ahead of time (do all of her bad guys have to be so predicta...
Doppelgangster (2010)
language
English
author
3.74 of 5 Votes: 1
review 1: This book was not as enjoyable as the first and I've been struggling to figure out why. Part of this is the author's desire to create a screwball comedy in the midst of a fantasy-mystery. I found this annoying rather than funny. How often can pratfalls and tangled conversation...