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Afraid of the Light

Afraid of the Light
  • Author(s): Douglas Kennedy
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, California
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The new novel from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The MomentBrendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he’s a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because...

All Involved

All Involved
  • Author(s): Ryan Gattis
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

On an April night in 1992, Payasa learns that her older brother has been stabbed to death, his body left out in the road to rot. He was never involved. He was innocent. He didn’t even carry a gun. And...

American Dream Machine

American Dream Machine
  • Author(s): Matthew Specktor
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s, 1970s

Beau Rosenwald – overweight, not particularly handsome, and improbably charismatic – arrives in Los Angles in 1962 with nothing but an ill-fitting suit and a pair of expensive brogues. By the late 1970s he has helped found the most...

Blue Sisters

Blue Sisters
  • Author(s): Coco Mellors
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity’ RAVEN LEILANI The Blue sisters have always been exceptional – and exceptionally different. Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret...

Good-bye To All That

Good-bye To All That
  • Author(s): Margo Candela
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Getting ahead in Hollywood poses a challenge for Raquel Azorian, a lowly marketing assistant at a major production company, and while she has ambition, energy, and smarts, the heroine of Candela’s wry latest doesn’t have a mentor or even...

Island of a Thousand Mirrors

Island of a Thousand Mirrors
  • Author(s): Nayomi Munaweera
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a...

Johnny’s Girl

Johnny’s Girl
  • Author(s): Paige Toon
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Meg’s life has taken a turn for the perfect. She is the envy of millions with her drop dead gorgeous husband, their two beautiful sons and her new mansion in Henley. Her celebrity PA days are over. But desperate...

LA Confidential

LA Confidential
  • Author(s): James Ellroy
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime

An involved story, with a beautiful, unique style. Graphic and dark. A police brutality case provides Ed Exley with an opportunity to make a name for himself but by testifying against other police officers he makes enemies as well...

Los Angeles Noir

Los Angeles Noir
  • Author(s): Denise Hamilton
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A collection of short stories set in and around LA under the editorship of Denis Hamilton

Melting the Snow on Hester Street

Melting the Snow on Hester Street
  • Author(s): Daisy Waugh
  • Location(s): Hollywood, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First three decades of 20th Century

Sumptuously evoking the Golden Age of Hollywood, a time when money is built on greed and love can be a trick of the light, Daisy Waugh’s stunning new novel is a compelling portrait of love, fame, and survival. It...

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