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It All Began in Monte Carlo

It All Began in Monte Carlo
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Adler
  • Location(s): Malibu, Monte Carlo
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Down in Monte Carlo, thefts of jewels keep Sunny and Mac well occupied.

Mile High

Mile High
  • Author(s): Rebecca Chance
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

First class is about to get dangerous . . . Pure Air’s new LuxeLiner is flying from London to LA – its inaugural journey – with a first-class cabin packed with A List celebrities. As the feuding crew compete...

Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore

Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore
  • Author(s): Robin Sloan
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A New York Times bestseller, Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore is an entirely charming and lovable first novel of mysterious books and dusty bookshops: it is a witty and delightful love-letter to both the old book world and the new....

Once Bitten

Once Bitten
  • Author(s): Stephen Leather
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

There’s a full moon over Los Angeles, and for police psychologist Jamie Beaverbook that can only mean one thing: the crazies will be out in force. But when he is called into the station for a consult in the...

Santa Fe Rules

Santa Fe Rules
  • Author(s): Stuart Woods
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Santa Fe
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 1900s

Affluent Hollywood producer Wolf Willet has engine trouble with his small plane and lands by the Grand Canyon. He happens to read a report in the NYT that his wife Julia and his business partner and seemingly he himself...

Tell Me Everything

Tell Me Everything
  • Author(s): Laura Kay
  • Location(s): Brighton, Joshua Tree, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): RomCom, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Would you entrust your life choices to someone hell-bent on avoiding theirs? Natasha has everything under control, at least that’s what her clients think. As a therapist, she has all the answers but when it comes to her personal...

Temptation Island

Temptation Island
  • Author(s): Victoria Fox
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Part set on the fictional island of Cacatra, but most of the action happens in Los Angeles. Welcome to Paradise. Only the rich are invited…only the strongest survive. But is it heaven on earth or a devil s playground?...

The Bookers: San Francisco Memories

The Bookers: San Francisco Memories
  • Author(s): Don C Becker
  • Location(s): Kansas, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

When nineteen-year-old Constance Connors, the beautiful and carefree Hawaiian-born daughter of an Episcopalian minister, meets a newly graduated West Point cadet, Second Lieutenant Joseph Booker, she’s instantly smitten. But it’s not long before she finds herself pregnant, married, and...

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
  • Author(s): William Saroyan
  • Location(s): Northern California, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1920s

The Language of Flowers

The Language of Flowers
  • Author(s): Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A very striking novel set in modern day Northern California, the story of Victoria a young girl who has lived her life in the Californian state care system. Yet she has spend time with Elizabeth who teaches Victoria the...

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