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- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
These noir stories take readers on a hard-boiled tour behind the Orange curtain where a reclusive rock star has lived way too long in his own head, a crooked judge uses the court for illicit means, a cab driver...
- Location(s): California, Cannes, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about what happens when all of your dreams become true. What would you do if… …you were happily married …with two gorgeous children …and the most gorgeous film star in the world walked up to...
- Location(s): La Jolla, Southern California
- Genre(s): Horror, Fiction, Gothic
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her...
- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): 1970s looking back a century
Matheson’s classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
There’s nothing quite like a holiday with your boyfriend. Flora Fielding can’t wait for Barney to join her in San Francisco so they can begin their dream holiday. Until Barney dumps her, leaving her stranded. Luckily, Flora’s cousin Bella...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s onwards
A group of Japanese “mail order” brides arrive in California in the 1920s – from their journey to America, through marriage, work, childbirth and motherhood, until they and their entire communities are rounded up at the beginning of the...
- Location(s): Hampstead, Los Angeles, Mexico, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s / 2000s
One winter’s afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows...
- Location(s): Sausalito, Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
IT WAS THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME: PROTECT HER Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his new wife, Hannah: protect her. Hannah knows exactly who Owen needs her to protect – his teenage...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, East Lothian, Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Moving from North Berwick in East Lothian, Scotland, to Edinburgh and off to the States, Roy tells of his lifelong obsession with film. Roy is a film fan. He loves the cinema. What happened that turned his world inside...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1939
World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio ‘fixer’, covering up crimes of the studio players to protect the billion-dollar industry that built Los Angeles. When one of the...
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