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- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century
Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like ‘something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting’. Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how she’ll cope...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Charles Bukowski’s brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski’s trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century. Nicky Belane,...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Erotica, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
THIS IS NOT A ROMANCE: A twisted story of obsession and female desire, Rush explores the dark and toxic side of the world’s sexiest sport. * * * * His desire will consume her. And all she can do...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
The second book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker had grown very close to Rina’s young sons, Sammy and Jake, as...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2008
Set in LA against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crash, this is the story of Rudy Reyes (a.k.a. Glasses), a gangster-turned-double-agent who wants out of the high-stakes high-risk criminal life, and Ricky Mendoza, Junior (a.k.a. Ghost), a DEA...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): 1980s
Southern California, 1986. Detective Ben Wade has returned to his hometown in search of a quieter life and to try to save his marriage. Suddenly the community, with its peaceful streets and neighbourly concerns, finds itself at the mercy...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lonely, depressed, Vermont transplant Mirabelle Buttersfield, who sells expensive evening gloves nobody ever buys at Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills and spends her evenings watching television with her two cats. She attempts to forge a relationship with middle-aged, womanizing,...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1939
I will never understand why murder is considered such a lowbrow speciality in Hollywood. September, 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock’s...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s/70s
No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for...
Spells and Oregano: Book II in The Secret Spice Cafe Trilogy
- Location(s): Long Beach
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s-2014
A mother desperate to save her twin sons, a war veteran in torment, a beautiful young psychic with a terrible secret, a powerful magician with a shattered soul, and a Queen steeped in history and glory. These extraordinary beings...
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