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- Location(s): Los Angeles, Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern back to 1970s
In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for...
- Location(s): London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
1966: In London, Jackie Collins‘s racy The World is Full of Married Men hits bookshops and launches her career. In New York, Jacqueline Susann‘s debut novel Valley of the Dolls is published, and she’s desperate for it to be...
- Location(s): China, Los Angeles, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s onwards
Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. Though their personalities are very different – Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid – they are...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
On his own turf in L.A., PI Elvis Cole is embroiled in a controversial, high-profile murder case. A wealthy restaurateur is accused of murdering his wife, and his hot-shot defence lawyer hires Cole to find proof that the detective...
- Location(s): San Diego, The Salton Sea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Hye-yang is a dutiful daughter in a Korean village where the women are ocean divers. But prostitution awaits her until an American takes her over to live in the States. Here she becomes Helen, and has a daughter –...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern (looking back to 1990s)
In the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which...
- Location(s): Hollywood, San Diego, Yosemite
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Lara Richards jets off to glamorous California, the last thing she’s expecting is to find her old friend Helen transformed from a clipboard-clasping frump into a shimmering surf goddess. The secret of her blissful new life? The mysterious...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Santa Monica Mountains
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
Based on a true story with an imaginative retelling for young readers; P22 mountain lion is born in the beautiful Santa Monica Mountains outside Los Angeles, California. But he is forced out of the mountains by Prime, a fierce...
- Location(s): Tijuana, Jerusalem, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1973; 1982
Former Little League champion Kimitake “Clyde” Koba finds strength in the belief that he is the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe as he struggles to escape the ghost of his brother and his alcoholic father. Born on Yom Kippur, teen...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
When evidence links a brutal murder in 1989 to a convicted rapist named Clayton Pell, the case should be water-tight. Pell’s DNA was found on the victim – but he was only eight years old at the time. This...
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