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- Location(s): Los Angeles, Nebraska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Sabine—twenty years a magician’s assistant to her handsome, charming husband—is suddenly a widow. In the wake of his death, she finds he has left a final trick; a false identity and a family allegedly lost in a tragic accident...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It’s the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
ONE WILD PARTY. FOUR COUNTS OF MURDER. A mansion in Beverly Hills is leased out to host an event wild enough to herald the end of days. The next day there isn’t a living soul to be seen. But...
- Location(s): California, Palm Desert
- Genre(s): Future
- Era(s): Contemporary
Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters, deeply divided...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An original, imaginative, and hilarious debut novel about love, anxiety, and sea creatures, from the author of So Sad Today. Lucy has been writing her dissertation about Sappho for thirteen years when she and Jamie break up. After she...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
A small town. A deadly secret. A race against an invisible killer . . . Southern California, 1987. Rancho Santa Elena might look like paradise, but a series of violent hate crimes are disturbing the peace. When Detective Benjamin...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
(The Hollywood Thriller Trilogy Book 1) Their rise was meteoric. Only a few years before, they had been three friends from Glasgow, just trying to survive tough lives of danger and dysfunction. But on one Hollywood evening in 1993,...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s
It’s mid-September, a heatwave has descended on the parched hills of LA and Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy twenty-two-year-old Chrissie Montgomery, set...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Early 1900s
It’s 1907 Los Angeles. Mischievous socialite Anna Blanc is the kind of young woman who devours purloined crime novels but must disguise them behind covers of more domestically-appropriate reading. She could match wits with Sherlock Holmes, but in her...
- Location(s): California, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game....
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