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An Inconvenient Woman

An Inconvenient Woman
  • Author(s): Stéphanie Buelens
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When Claire Fontaine learns that her ex-husband Simon is marrying again, to a woman with a teenage daughter, her blood runs cold. She is sure that years ago Simon molested her own daughter and was responsible for her mysterious...

Beneath the Same Heaven

Beneath the Same Heaven
  • Author(s): Anne Marie Ruff
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Dubai, Pakistan, San Diego
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller

Kathryn, an American woman, and Rashid, a Pakistani-born Muslim man, seem to have bridged the divide between Western and Islamic world views with their marriage and two American-born children. But everything changes when Rashid’s father is suddenly killed by...

Black Water

Black Water
  • Author(s): Louise Doughty
  • Location(s): California, Indonesia, Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back

John Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian island, listening to the rain on the roof and believing his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to...

Deep Blue Trouble

Deep Blue Trouble
  • Author(s): Steph Broadribb
  • Location(s): Southern California
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Her daughter Dakota is safe, but her cancer is threatening a comeback, and Lori needs JT – Dakota’s daddy and the man who taught Lori everything – alive and kicking. Problem is, he’s behind bars, and heading for death...

Fever City

Fever City
  • Author(s): Tim Baker
  • Location(s): Dallas, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s/2014

Nick Alston, a Los Angeles private investigator, is hired to find the kidnapped son of America’s richest and most hated man. Hastings, a mob hitman in search of redemption, is also on the trail. But both men soon become...

Orhan’s Inheritance

Orhan’s Inheritance
  • Author(s): Aline Ohanesian
  • Location(s): California, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1915 and 1990s

When Orhan’s brilliant and eccentric grandfather Kemal—a man who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs—is found dead, submerged in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the decades-old business. But Kemal’s will raises more questions than it answers....

Pretending to Dance

Pretending to Dance
  • Author(s): Diane Chamberlain
  • Location(s): North Carolina, San Diego
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When the pretending ends, the lying begins . . . Molly Arnette is good at keeping secrets. As she and her husband try to adopt a baby, she worries that the truth she’s kept hidden about her North Carolina childhood...

Red Honey

Red Honey
  • Author(s): Saira Viola
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A collection of Noir inspired short stories and flash fiction showcasing hot spots in London LA and New York

Salt Bones

Salt Bones
  • Author(s): Jennifer Givhan
  • Location(s): The Salton Sea
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At the edge of the Salton Sea, in the blistering borderlands, something is out hunting. . . Malamar Veracruz has never left the dust-choked town of El Valle. Here, Mal has done her best to build a good life:...

The Immortalists

The Immortalists
  • Author(s): Chloe Benjamin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From 1969

It’s 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York’s Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young...

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