The Pinball Lawyer

The sixth novel in Marv Nodiff's Joshua Fyler series. 

Condo lawyer Joshua Fyler likes routine in his routine.

But that changes overnight when a drone attacks an HOA, a greedy investor threatens to convert a condo into an apartment complex, and legislators push for Airbnb in all community associations. An HOA president wants to run for local office, but her opponent would be the cunning owner of an ad agency with sharp elbows.

Worse yet, while Joshua is flipped from one crisis to the next, a powerful mega-law firm expands its practice to compete with his boutique shop. BIG LAW declares war and starts stealing his clients by promising better services at lower fees. A trickle of clients abandons Joshua, but the stream soon becomes a torrent.

Alarmed when he starts losing in court, Joshua searches for answers. Why are BIG LAW’s cases given deference in court? Is the judge too friendly? Who is the crack researcher that BIG LAW keeps under wraps?

Facing an existential threat to his livelihood, Joshua must fashion a new bag of tricks capable of digital combat and an old-fashioned alley fight. He calls in favors from a cybercrime expert, a former law school classmate, and a journalist.

Is he the silver ball or the flipper? Or did the machine go tilt for The Pinball Lawyer?

HOA Gobsmack!

The fifth novel in Marv Nodiff's Joshua Fyler series. 

What happens when populism invades the community association? Condo lawyer Joshua Fyler soon finds out when several association clients elect new boards and promptly fire him. Condo directors take a weekend retreat for strategic planning and return to find they’ve been ousted in a recall election. An HOA board creates a showcase community garden, but a small rebel cadre plows under the harvest. Ignited by a web forum, homeowner discontent is fueled by unfiltered social media and an aggressive investigative reporter. Which community is next? And why does every recall election cost Joshua a client?

The mounting revolts threaten to destroy Joshua’s practice and ruin his reputation. But is it too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence? Is it part of a national populist movement to “take back our community” or a sinister scam? Joshua overcomes his preoccupations with food and law to fight back with schemes that would make Machiavelli blush. But will there be a happy ending?

HOA Gobsmack! takes a fun peek into communities, exploring tough issues and colorful characters in a rollicking, entertaining ride through the landscape of community living.

The Condo Kerfuffle

The fourth novel in Marvin Nodiff’s Joshua Fyler series.

The era of drones, guns and cyber-crime has created new and dangerous disputes in community associations. Condo lawyer Joshua Fyler prefers to be a peacemaker for his clients, but quickly finds himself in the cross-fire.

A pastoral community with a vineyard instead of a golf course is known for its peacefulness. Until now. Grapes and guns ferment into disputes and violence. 

Condo owners in an upscale hi-rise are enjoying life. Until now. They become pawns in a complex chess game that threatens to alter their comfortable lifestyle.

Little does Joshua know how his innocent public comment about guns will turn his life into a combat zone. Nor does he realize how an unstable relationship is destroying his self-confidence. But, Joshua refuses to back down from a brawl whether in a court of law or on a basketball court.

While dodging danger from uncooperative boards and disgruntled homeowners, Joshua reconnects in Italy with an enigmatic fraud investigator. He returns with a strategy to fight back using a team of unlikely folks with unique talents. Along the way, he discovers love hiding in plain sight.

The Dark Condos

The third novel in Marv Nodiff's Joshua Fyler series. 

Every community association has rules, but what happens when a board uses a surveillance drone to find the violations? What could possibly go wrong?

When the directors of a condo board hit the lottery and win millions of dollars, everyone should be celebrating. What could possibly go wrong?

Condo attorney Joshua Fyler soon learns that a lot can go wrong—and not just for his clients. He’s being investigated by the feds. Is he laundering funds through nonexistent —dark—condos? Through serendipitous connections he gets help from an unlikely European private investigator whose special research techniques are so unique even Joshua doesn’t want to know.

The Dark Condos takes the reader on an entertaining, smart, and quirky ride from a romantic vacation in Brussels, that goes south in France; from misguided condo boards to the joys of community living; from tangled disputes to common ground; from failure to balancing work and love; and, finally, to lessons learned from a stranger.

CAI’s own Marvin Nodiff, known for his unique futuristic view of community associations, takes another prescient look in his novel, The Dark Condos.

No Spitting On The Floor

The second novel in Marv Nodiff's Joshua Fyler series. 

Power. Greed. Pride. A condo lawyer can get into lots of trouble, but a murder suspect at the State Capitol? A fun and provocative “who-dunnit” set at the intersection of private community associations and public government.

The second novel in the Joshua Fyler trilogy. CAI's answer to John Grisham, Marv Nodiff, has again captured the  essence of community association business with humor, insight and intelligence. Anyone working in or for a community association will recognize Joshua, his associates and their board-member clients. Groan or laugh, you're guaranteed to find a character you know.

Special Assessment

The first novel in Marv Nodiff's Joshua Fyler series.

Special Assessment is a mystery of sophisticated white-collar crime set against a backdrop of community association activities and characters. It provides an inside view of the distinctive social fabric and politics of community association living.

The new American neighborhood—the community association—is an experiment in close living and private self-government at the most intimate level. And it's a rich experiment indeed. These condominiums and planned communities have eighteen billion dollars in reserves held in accounts across the country.

Despite such outrageous assets, the associations that govern these private communities have quietly existed, untouched by white-collar crime. Until now.

Special Assessment unfolds with the seemingly perfect crime: an invisible electronic transfer of millions of dollars by a computer genius using a malicious new applet virus. Attorney Joshua Fyler and community manager Michelle Gratiot join forces to protect her business.

They investigate a growing list of suspects, encountering a ruthless condominium president, hungry with lust and power; a paranoid and litigious owner who sues everyone in search of respect and revenge; an information technologist whose greed is exceeded only by his own ineptness; and countless other characters from the world of community living.

While the clever, but bumbling, criminals strain to pull off the heist of their lives, Joshua and Michelle carry on a resourceful, feisty, and unrelenting attack to stop them. Along the way, Joshua and Michelle are forced to confront their fear of a career-ending crisis as well as their mutual fears of commitment.