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- Location(s): Thailand, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present
Alice is turning thirty and is stuck in a rut. Her friends are all coupling up and settling down, while she’s still working as a temp, trying (and failing) not to shag her terrible ex, getting thrown out of...
- Location(s): Monterey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
John Steinbeck’s paean to the Monterey County of his youth, Cannery Row contains an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw in Penguin Modern Classics. In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits – gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Her daughter Dakota is safe, but her cancer is threatening a comeback, and Lori needs JT – Dakota’s daddy and the man who taught Lori everything – alive and kicking. Problem is, he’s behind bars, and heading for death...
- Location(s): California, Florida, Georgia, West Virginia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lori Anderson is as tough as they come, managing to keep her career as a fearless Florida bounty hunter separate from her role as single mother to nine-year-old Dakota, who suffers from leukaemia. But when the hospital bills start...
- Location(s): California, London, Switzerland, The Philippines, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): PRESENT
An LA screenwriter is killed shortly after completing his latest script, FALL OUT – a thriller destined to be a blockbuster but written with a secret double purpose. Echoing events from the past the screenplay is sent to a...
- Location(s): Dallas, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s/2014
Nick Alston, a Los Angeles private investigator, is hired to find the kidnapped son of America’s richest and most hated man. Hastings, a mob hitman in search of redemption, is also on the trail. But both men soon become...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1969/70
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take...
- Location(s): North Carolina, San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When the pretending ends, the lying begins . . . Molly Arnette is good at keeping secrets. As she and her husband try to adopt a baby, she worries that the truth she’s kept hidden about her North Carolina childhood...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): From 1969
It’s 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York’s Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1950s
The sunniest places hold the darkest secrets . . . A stunning 1950s set debut mystery brimming with atmosphere and perfect for fans of Tangerine, Small Pleasures and Mad Men. Yesterday, I kissed my husband for the last time...
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