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Still Lives

Still Lives
  • Author(s): Maria Hummel
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women–the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson,...

Sunset Swing

Sunset Swing
  • Author(s): Ray Celestin
  • Location(s): California, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 1960s

City Blues Quartet, 4 Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A devil is loose in the City of Angels . . . A young nurse, Kerry Gaudet, travels to the City of Angels desperate to find her missing brother, fearing that...

The Big Nowhere

The Big Nowhere
  • Author(s): James Ellroy
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year’s Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are...

The Big Sleep (Phillip Marlowe)

The Big Sleep (Phillip Marlowe)
  • Author(s): Raymond Chandler
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, with Sternwood’s two wild, devil-may-care...

The Black Kids

The Black Kids
  • Author(s): Christina Hammonds Reed
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1990s, 1992

Perfect for fans of The Hate U Give, this unforgettable coming-of-age debut novel is a unflinching exploration of race, class, and violence as well as the importance of being true to yourself. Los Angeles, 1992 Ashley Bennett and her...

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
  • Author(s): Abbi Waxman
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, an excellent trivia team and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and...

The Catch

The Catch
  • Author(s): Ross King, Shari Low
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At a glittering after-party on the night of the Academy Awards, author Mirren McLean celebrates her win with her childhood friends Davie Johnston and Zander Leith by her side. Three kids from a tough street in Glasgow, the dazzling...

The Christmas Train

The Christmas Train
  • Author(s): David Baldacci
  • Location(s): Washington DC, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction

In equal parts hilarious, poignant, suspenseful and thrilling, The Christmas Train by David Baldacci is a delightful journey filled with memorable characters who have packed their bags with as much wisdom as mischief . . . Disillusioned journalist Tom...

The Dark Hours

The Dark Hours
  • Author(s): Michael Connelly
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Has a killer lain dormant for years only to strike again on New Year’s Eve? LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to find justice for an innocent victim in the new thriller from #1 New York...

The Day of the Locust

The Day of the Locust
  • Author(s): Nathanael West
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s/1940s

The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West’s Hollywood is not the glamorous “home of the stars” but a seedy world...

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