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- 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): California, Ypsilanti
- Genre(s): Fiction, Future
- Era(s): 2054
A story of loneliness, love and loose connections, Set My Heart to Five is a hilarious, touching, dazzlingly perceptive debut novel, and a profound exploration of what it truly means to be human. 10/10 Jared does not have friends....
- 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): Santa Ynez
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Early 2000s
Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences, since the day on...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from...
- Location(s): California, The American South
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
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