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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...

The Detective and the Pipe Girl

The Detective and the Pipe Girl
  • Author(s): Michael Craven
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Finalist for the 2015 Nero Wolfe Award Finalist for the 2015 Shamus Award With a style as distinct as crime masters such as Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiassen, and Harlan Coben, Michael Craven delivers a richly atmospheric, humorous, fast-paced mystery...

The Devils Playground

The Devils Playground
  • Author(s): Craig Russell
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1920s

A dark, riveting thriller set in 1920s Hollywood about “the greatest horror movie ever made”, the curse said to surround it, and a deadly search, decades later, for the single copy rumoured still to exist. 1927: Hollywood studio fixer...

The Disappearing Act

The Disappearing Act
  • Author(s): Catherine Steadman
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A woman has gone missing But did she ever really exist? Mia Eliot has travelled from London to LA for pilot season. This is her big chance to make it as an actor in Hollywood, and she is ready...

The Dreamers

The Dreamers
  • Author(s): Karen Thompson Walker
  • Location(s): Southern California
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months… Karen Thompson Walker’s second novel tells the mesmerising story of a town transformed by a mystery illness that locks people in perpetual sleep and triggers...

The Ghost Orchid

The Ghost Orchid
  • Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman
  • Location(s): Bel Air, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In an upscale Bel Air property, two lovers are found dead in a swimming pool. The man is the playboy heir to a business empire, and the woman is his even wealthier married neighbour. An illicit affair is the...

The Goddess of Warsaw

The Goddess of Warsaw
  • Author(s): Lisa Barr
  • Location(s): Warsaw, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s / 2000s

Los Angeles, 2005. Sienna Hayes, Hollywood’s latest It Girl, has ambitions to work behind the camera. When she meets Lena Browning, the enormously mysterious and famous Golden Age movie star, Sienna sees her big break. She wants to direct...

The Great Pretenders

The Great Pretenders
  • Author(s): Laura Kalpakian
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Outraged by her grandfather’s illicit affair with Empire Pictures’ latest femme fatale, Roxanne Granville forsakes her position as Hollywood royalty and rejects the man who raised her, determined to strike out on her own in McCarthy-era California. Backed by...

THE HOUSE OF BRADBURY

THE HOUSE OF BRADBURY
  • Author(s): Nicole Meier
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Named a “Best Book of 2016” by Refinery29 and a “Spring & Summer Book Pick” by * Redbook Magazine * Refinery29 * Coastal Living * Brit + Co * SheKnows * The Reading Room * FabFitFun * YourTango *...

The House of Broken Angels

The House of Broken Angels
  • Author(s): Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Location(s): San Diego
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death.’ In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan...

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