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Imperial Bedrooms

Imperial Bedrooms
  • Author(s): Bret Easton Ellis
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Clay is a successful screenwriter, middle-aged and disaffected; he’s in LA to cast his new movie. However, this trip is anything other than professional, and he’s soon drifting through a louche and long-familiar circle – a world largely populated...

Inventing TV News, Live and Local in Los Angeles

Inventing TV News, Live and Local in Los Angeles
  • Author(s): Terry Anzur
  • Location(s): California, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Travel back in time to Southern California, where live TV coverage of breaking news was born. Everyone’s Child, 1949: Two rival stations in Los Angeles televise the attempted rescue of a toddler from an abandoned well pipe. For the...

IQ

IQ
  • Author(s): Joe Ide
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, the elderly are being mugged, children go missing. But word has spread: if you’ve got a case the police can’t – or...

Jamie Quinn Mystery Collection: Box Set Books 1-3 (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery)

Jamie Quinn Mystery Collection: Box Set Books 1-3 (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery)
  • Author(s): Barbara Venkataraman
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Florida
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Books 1-3 of the Jamie Quinn Mystery Series! Including: “Death by Didgeridoo”-Winner of the Indie Book of the Day award. Reluctant lawyer, Jamie Quinn, still reeling from the death of her mother, is pulled into a game of deception,...

Künstlers in Paradise

Künstlers in Paradise
  • Author(s): Cathleen Schine
  • Location(s): Venice Beach (LA), Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From WW2 onwards

There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy...

L.A. Women

L.A. Women
  • Author(s): Ella Berman
  • Location(s): California, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

An electrifying novel about the complicated friendship between two ambitious writers and the ultimate artistic betrayal: one writes a book based upon the other’s life, revealing everything…from the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick Before We Were Innocent. After...

Laughing Gas

Laughing Gas
  • Author(s): P G Wodehouse
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 1930s

Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic...

Less Than Zero

Less Than Zero
  • Author(s): Bret Easton Ellis
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become...

Lie By The Pool

Lie By The Pool
  • Author(s): Susan Walter
  • Location(s): Beverly Hills
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A desperate woman. An irresistible invitation. An escalating nightmare of secrets, lies, and murder. Bree’s new home is luxurious and private, with a fancy Beverly Hills address. What a shame it’s not hers. Widowed, penniless, living in her car,...

Lies and Weddings

Lies and Weddings
  • Author(s): Kevin Chen
  • Location(s): Hawai'i, England, Los Angeles, Marrakech, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Rufus Leung Gresham, future Duke of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel, is drowning in debt. The only solution, according to his scheming mother, is for him to attend his sister’s...

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