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Milk Fed

Milk Fed
  • Author(s): Melissa Broder
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today. Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By...

Murder in Tinseltown

Murder in Tinseltown
  • Author(s): Max Nightingale
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Puzzle
  • Era(s): 1950s

Los Angeles, 1958. The biggest, brightest and best names in Hollywood have gathered at the Royale Premiere Hotel on the eve of the biggest awards show of the year. Things take a devilish turn when leading lady Blanche Aikerman...

Musical Games

Musical Games
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Castle Leod, London, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He’s never been kissed… Shy electrician Jamie McDougall has never set foot outside Scotland, or his comfort zone. Then beautiful and vivacious Sam gatecrashes his world, and he’s unwillingly swept up in her grand plan. But though Jamie has...

Nightshade

Nightshade
  • Author(s): Michael Connelly
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Santa Catalina Island
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

LAPD Detective Stilwell has been forced out of the Homicide department to a dead-end post on Santa Catalina Island. It might be an idyllic holiday destination but Stilwell knows it’s a backwater to keep him out of sight and...

On Swift Horses

On Swift Horses
  • Author(s): Shannon Pufahl
  • Location(s): San Diego, Las Vegas, Tijuana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th century

A breathtakingly beautiful debut novel of revolution, chance and the gambles we take with the human heart. Muriel, newly married and newly orphaned, works as a waitress in a San Diego diner. As she pours coffee and empties ashtrays,...

Painted Faces

Painted Faces
  • Author(s): Megan Easley-Walsh
  • Location(s): Budapest, Hollywood, Hungary, Kansas
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1938

From the Best-selling Author… Lights! Camera! Hollywood! In 1938, nineteen-year-old Vivian Harris’s mother wants her to get married and have a family, but Vivian’s seduced by someone else entirely: Hollywood. Yearning to trade in farm dust for stardust, she...

Paper Cut

Paper Cut
  • Author(s): Rachel Taff
  • Location(s): California, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

EVERYBODY KNOWS THE STORY. NOBODY KNOWS THE TRUTH… Lucy Golden is a true-crime icon, infamous for killing someone as a teenager while escaping a California cult. Twenty years later, still coasting on the success of the memoir she wrote...

Party of Two

Party of Two
  • Author(s): Jasmine Guillory
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking. Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe’s mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she...

Pizza Girl

Pizza Girl
  • Author(s): Jean Kyoung Frazier
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A riotously funny yet difficult story of two women in opposite life stages but similar mental states, Pizza Girlfollows an 18-year-old pregnant protagonist floundering as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles. She encounters Jenny, a middle-aged stay-at-home...

Pool House

Pool House
  • Author(s): Mary H K Choi
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stevie cannot wait to escape her mother. Whilst many people dream of moving to LA and into the spotlight, she is desperate to get out and start over. Moon is many things: an out-of-work actress, a recovering addict, a...

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