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Daughters of the Sun and Moon

Daughters of the Sun and Moon
  • Author(s): Lisa See
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty, and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Dove, the bound-footed daughter of an imperial scholar, is entrancing and innocent. These characteristics should bring her great rewards, beginning with her arranged...

Daughters of the Sun and Moon

Daughters of the Sun and Moon
  • Author(s): Lisa See
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1870s

In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Dove, the bound-footed daughter of an imperial scholar, is entrancing and innocent. These characteristics should bring her great rewards, beginning with her arranged...

Devil in a Blue Dress

Devil in a Blue Dress
  • Author(s): Walter Mosley
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

‘I need to find somebody and I might need a little help looking…’ The summer of ’48 in the city of Angels and there’s heat on the streets when Daphne Monet hits the sidewalk. Heat when she disappears with...

Engaged in Danger: A Jamie Quinn Mystery (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery Book 4) (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mysteries) (Volume 4)

Engaged in Danger: A Jamie Quinn Mystery (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery Book 4) (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mysteries) (Volume 4)
  • Author(s): Barbara Venkataraman
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Florida
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Finally, life is good for reluctant family law attorney, Jamie Quinn–her father may get his visa soon, her boyfriend is the bomb, and her law practice is growing like crazy–but when she agrees to take on a high-profile divorce...

Everybody Knows

Everybody Knows
  • Author(s): Jordan Harper
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

n Hollywood, nobody talks. But everybody whispers. Welcome to Mae Pruett’s LA. A ‘black-bag’ publicist at one of Hollywood’s most powerful crisis PR firms, Mae’s job isn’t to get good news out, it’s to keep the bad news in...

False Idols

False Idols
  • Author(s): Karla Marie Sweet
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

ANYTHING CAN BE DANGEROUS IN THE WRONG HANDS. Sadie’s been adrift, looking for an escape from her new house and old memories, when a chance encounter leads her to one of the most exclusive wellness classes in LA. At...

Far Out

Far Out
  • Author(s): Khaled Talib
  • Location(s): Southern California
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present and the Sixties

Hollywood movie star Goldie Saint Helen comes out of a coma after a car accident with an altered identity. She now believes she is a hippie detective living in the Sixties, hired to find a missing teenage girl who...

Fly Me

Fly Me
  • Author(s): Daniel Riley
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1972

The year is 1972, and the Los Angeles beaches are the center of the world. Literally dropping into the embers of the drug and surfer scene is Suzy Larsen, who has dropped out of college and followed her mysterious...

Freaks I’ve Met

Freaks I’ve Met
  • Author(s): Donald Jans
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Spokane, Washington, is nearly perfect for most people, but Jack Fitzpatrick is not one of them. Hours after graduation and armed with his final paycheck from his nemesis, Mrs Pohlkiss, Jack heads for Southern California determined to prove that...

Gallery of the Dead

Gallery of the Dead
  • Author(s): Chris Carter
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Thirty-seven years in the force, and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mind, what’s inside that room would be it.’ That’s what a LAPD Lieutenant tells Detectives Hunter and Garcia of the...

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