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- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century, early 21st century
At the turn of the last century, two sisters are following very different paths. Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is a CEO of an internet start-up; twenty-three-year-old Jess is a grad student in philosophy, a vegan who rejects the rampant capitalism that...
- Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul, San Francisco, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Humour, Suspense
- Era(s): 2014
Young underemployed man in the East San Francisco Bay gets hired by mysterious tech company. Hilarity ensues. A scotch-swilling DUI attorney, a cynical congressional staffer, and a retired bomb- sniffing German Shepherd are just some of the characters Chuck...
The Detective and the Pipe Girl
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Finalist for the 2015 Nero Wolfe Award Finalist for the 2015 Shamus Award With a style as distinct as crime masters such as Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiassen, and Harlan Coben, Michael Craven delivers a richly atmospheric, humorous, fast-paced mystery...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1920s
A dark, riveting thriller set in 1920s Hollywood about “the greatest horror movie ever made”, the curse said to surround it, and a deadly search, decades later, for the single copy rumoured still to exist. 1927: Hollywood studio fixer...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Contemporary
Penny Rush has problems. Freshly divorced from her mobile knife-sharpener husband, she has returned home to Santa Barbara to deal with her grandfather, who is being moved into a retirement home by his cruel second wife. Her grandmother, meanwhile,...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months… Karen Thompson Walker’s second novel tells the mesmerising story of a town transformed by a mystery illness that locks people in perpetual sleep and triggers...
- Location(s): California, Nevada, Pacific Northwest
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A single call from his Czech girlfriend catapults Trevor into a serious crisis. Desperate to get his mojo back, he blazes down Highway 99 in a rented Dodge Neon. But soon his journey to California is fraught with peril,...
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