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Dianne Emley

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Los Angeles, California, The United States

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Mystery & Thrillers

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Patricia Highsmith, Raymond Chandler, Daphne du Maurier, Jim Thompson ...more

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Los Angeles Times bestselling author Dianne Emley is a Los Angeles native, growing up in the multicultural Northeast side, where she attended public schools. She earned a B.A. in Philosophy and an MBA, both from UCLA, and has held a variety of day jobs, mostly in business middle management. For years during the early morning before she headed to the office, she wrote fiction. Her first book, Cold Call, a mystery about Iris Thorne, a sexy, single L.A. investment counselor in the "greed is good" late 1980s, was sold at auction to Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster and published in 1993. It was followed by four more in that series.

Dianne was inspired to take her writing in a new direction and began writing about Nan Vining—a haunted and driven h ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 1,980 ratings · 352 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	The First Cut (Nan Vining Mysteries, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 662 ratings — published 2006 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cut to the Quick (Nan Vining Mysteries, #2) 3.74 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Killing Secrets (Nan Vining Mysteries #5) 4.12 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night Visitor 3.88 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Deepest Cut (Nan Vining Mysteries, #3) 3.72 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 2009 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lying Blind (Nan Vining Mystery #6) 4.18 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Kills (Nan Vining Mysteries, #4) 3.90 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	À vif (Belfond noir) (French Edition) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Untitled Nan Vining #7 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jusqu'au sang (Belfond Noir) (French Edition) by Dianne Emley (Goodreads Author), Éric Moreau (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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That girl in the photo is me in 1970 at 16 years old. The expression on my face pretty much sums up my attitude during a wide swath of my adolescence: wary, protective (check out those tightly crossed arms), and kind of ticked off. Don’t get me wrong. That girl had a lot of laughs and a lot of fun. But this photo captures her default mode and, based upon her life up till then, she was right to vie

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message 9: by Christine

Jun 05, 2015 02:19PM

Thanks for accepting my friend request

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message 8: by Dianne

Aug 06, 2012 07:43AM

Beth wrote: "Hi Dianne,
Thanks for befriending this fellow mystery/suspense author here as well as elsewhere!"

Nice to catch up with you here, Beth.

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message 7: by Dianne

Aug 06, 2012 07:42AM

Zoë wrote: "Hi Dianne. Lovely to catch up with you here. Thanks for Friending me! How's the writing going?"

Same, here, Zoe! The writing is going... you know, one word at a time. :-)

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message 6: by Zoë

Aug 04, 2012 02:44AM