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Chasing Salomé

Chasing Salomé
  • Author(s): Martin Turnbull
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920

Alla Nazimova has reached the pinnacle of success. She is the highest-paid actress in town, with a luxurious estate, the respect of her peers, adoration of her fans, and a series of lovers that has included the first wife...

Climbing in Heels

Climbing in Heels
  • Author(s): Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Beanie, Mercedes and Ella – a Valley Girl from LA, an English rose-with-thorns and a Kentucky blueblood, each denying their past while creating a future – together storm the boys’ club that is the hottest talent agency in 1980s...

Engaged in Danger: A Jamie Quinn Mystery (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery Book 4) (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mysteries) (Volume 4)

Engaged in Danger: A Jamie Quinn Mystery (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery Book 4) (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mysteries) (Volume 4)
  • Author(s): Barbara Venkataraman
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Florida
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Finally, life is good for reluctant family law attorney, Jamie Quinn–her father may get his visa soon, her boyfriend is the bomb, and her law practice is growing like crazy–but when she agrees to take on a high-profile divorce...

Everybody Knows

Everybody Knows
  • Author(s): Jordan Harper
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

n Hollywood, nobody talks. But everybody whispers. Welcome to Mae Pruett’s LA. A ‘black-bag’ publicist at one of Hollywood’s most powerful crisis PR firms, Mae’s job isn’t to get good news out, it’s to keep the bad news in...

Get Shorty

Get Shorty
  • Author(s): Elmore Leonard
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

Miami loan shark Chili Palmer is ice-cool, whether he’s retrieving stolen property or collecting money for the mob. Chasing a bad debt leads him to the bright lights of Hollywood – and to a true story that would make...

Happy Little Bluebirds

Happy Little Bluebirds
  • Author(s): Louise Levene
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

It is September 1940 and Evelyn Murdoch, a translator from the Postal Censorship department, is uprooted from her home in wartime Woking and transferred to Hollywood. She is to assist a mysterious British agent in his attempts to outwit...

Hollywood, Ending

Hollywood, Ending
  • Author(s): John Green
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For rising young actors Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they’ve both been waiting for. They’re on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling...

Husbands: Love and Lies in La-La Land

Husbands: Love and Lies in La-La Land
  • Author(s): Mo Fanning
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Hollywood, every pavement star tells a story. Not all of them shine. Wannabe actor Kyle Macdonald is down on his luck. Working as a supply teacher in an inner-city Birmingham school, he’s single again at 28, and sleeping...

Jamie Quinn Mystery Collection: Box Set Books 1-3 (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery)

Jamie Quinn Mystery Collection: Box Set Books 1-3 (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery)
  • Author(s): Barbara Venkataraman
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Florida
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Books 1-3 of the Jamie Quinn Mystery Series! Including: “Death by Didgeridoo”-Winner of the Indie Book of the Day award. Reluctant lawyer, Jamie Quinn, still reeling from the death of her mother, is pulled into a game of deception,...

Laughing Gas

Laughing Gas
  • Author(s): P G Wodehouse
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 1930s

Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic...

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