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- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 21st Century
‘As soon as they processed my release Noah and I hit the ground running. A change of clothes. A wig. An inconspicuous sedan. We doubled back once, twice, then drove south when we were really headed east. In San...
- Location(s): Arizona, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Set mostly in Arizona and L.A., Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night. Sallis combines murder, treachery and payback in a sinister plot with resonances of 1940s...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, New York City (NYC), Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
The book is set among Jewish-Americans in the early 1950’s, the McCarthy years of loyalty oaths. Bea Nightingale,in her 50s is divorced in NYC where she teaches English and has put her life on hold since her divorce. She...
- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
The novel begins in 1942, when nine-year-old Lark and her newly separated mother and aunt Betty travel by train from southern Minnesota to San Diego. Eager to obtain war work and as much distance as possible from her estranged...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Set in San Pedro, a southern district of Los Angeles and one of the world’s busiest ports. Dinko Babich and Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from a local topless bar start building up a relationship, a life together fraught...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Celebs, sunshine and beautiful boys…enough to lead a girl astray? Angela Clark can’t believe her luck… she’s an English girl living in New York with a dream job at hip magazine The Look and a sexy boyfriend. Her latest...
- Location(s): Coronado Island, La Jolla
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 2011 /1986
Now: Nicole Forbes lives a quiet life in a small seaside Californian town with her husband and daughter. She is not expecting a writer to knock on her door asking for her personal insight into the downfall of the...
Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Israel, Québec, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Jerusalem’s Old City a young priest and a dominatrix converse in the dying light; on Oregon’s windswept coast a fragile woman discovers a body washed up on the beach after a storm; and in Postwar Japan a young...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1919, 1945, 1965
One beautiful dress is the key to three brave women’s destinies… France 1919: Jessie is celebrating the last heady days of her honeymoon. But when her husband suddenly disappears she finds herself bereft. Until a chance encounter thrusts her...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
They met in high school, but had nothing in common: Blair Clemens, a Bohemian chick who kept to herself, and Luke Bellingham, the golden boy – rich handsome, and destined for greatness. Now, years later, Luke has fulfilled his...
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