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- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 1950s
Set near San Francisco, this warm and funny novel follows the fortunes and failures of Jack and Milly for sixty years. They marry in 1952, and typical of post-war couples, shift up a class. Optimistic and full of plans,...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Head Pro at Pebble Beach,Kevin Courtney discovers that its wealthy owner has secret plans to sell the course to developers in the very near future. Kevin makes a desperate bet to save the course from destruction – if he...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Steel’s latest novel follows the travails of a demure Marin County housewife who finds herself caught up in the glamorous world of Hollywood. Tanya Harris is a contented wife and mother (beautiful for her age, of course) whose children...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Crime, Novella
- Era(s): Modern
A San Francisco wife plots to murder her philandering husband by being in two places at one time. She commits the Perfect Crime and starts an exciting new life with a sexy new boyfriend, living off the life insurance...
- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Mystery novelist Elise relocates back to her home town, with dog Bella. Anyone who has had to put up with a flatshare from hell will be able to identify with Elise’s seach for someone with whom she can live…
Something’s Fishy in Palm Springs
- Location(s): Palm Springs
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
It’s another typical day in the life of Ms. Aggie Underhill… Flying with her best friend Betty to Palm Springs, staying with an eccentric interior designer, the fish-nabbing of a $200,000 fish, a kidnapping of an actress and lastly...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Mystery, Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Modern
Padlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches. There are some odd things about Nate’s new apartment. Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No...
21st Birthday (Women’s Murder Club 21)
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a distraught mother pleads with San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to investigate the disappearance of her daughter Tara and baby granddaughter Lorrie, Cindy immediately loops in SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The prime suspect is Tara’s schoolteacher husband,...
- Location(s): Hollywood, London
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1950s
PLAY THEIR GAME Hollywood, 1953. Young actress Ginny Watkins is turning heads. Even the legendary – and married – actor Max Whitman can’t resist the allure of the hottest new starlet. He promises Ginny the world, in return for...
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