Novelist & Attorney
A fresh voice as a gifted storyteller, Marvin Nodiff taps 30 years’ legal experience with condos and HOAs to capture the fun and foibles of community living. Colorful characters are thrust into twisting plots as they confront emerging societal tensions from cybercrime and populism to weaponized drones and social media warfare. Condo lawyer Joshua Fyler prefers to resolve disputes amicably but is capable of tactics that would make Machiavelli blush.
Nodiff gives us a new body of fiction set in community associations with a page-turning style that blends sheer entertainment and bizarre mysteries in a prescient view of the future. And nobody gets hurt. Almost.
About Marvin Nodiff
A unique and prescient voice, Nodiff has a gift for telling stories that capture the present and foretell the future.
Latest Novel
The Great Condo Heist
By Marvin Nodiff
A smooth-talking developer, an HOA using AI, death in a condo, and a hot mayor’s race. The stakes are high in this fun new caper by renowned condo humorist Marv Nodiff.
Condo lawyer Joshua Fyler hopes a weekend bicycle trip in farmland will restore normalcy to his life. But crazy lurks around the bend.
His old friend, a local mayor, needs two favors: she wants Joshua to investigate a ransom attack on the city and help an aging condo suffering from dysfunction.
Things get more complicated when a pricy new apartment is proposed to replace the condo. And an HOA board is sued for using artificial intelligence to find violations.
How can the mayor keep her job and the condo owners keep their homes? How will Joshua defend AI?
Joshua’s former investigative partner Phoebe Roark smells corruption. A reporter with the drive of a slow-turning drill, Phoebe pulls him into another venture full of surprises that will test their rocky relationship.
The reader travels a witty, plot-twisting journey from Missouri’s calm countryside to bustling Barcelona. But can Joshua and Phoebe survive their new collaboration?
What are the stakes in The Great Condo Heist?
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"No one writes about community associations like Nodiff does. What a treat to read a novel that takes place in an association just like mine and laugh out loud at the antics of board members . . . and sometimes managers . . . also just like mine."
— B. Shafer, former CAI board member
Featured in Common Ground Magazine
Marvin’s fiction work has been featured in numerous publications, including Common Ground Magazine.
The Dark Condos Featured in Common Ground Magazine
Marvin’s fifth novel in the Joshua Fyler series was featured in Common Ground Magazine in 2014.
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