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The Cookbook Collector

The Cookbook Collector
  • Author(s): Allegra Goodman
  • 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...

The Crimson Shamrock

The Crimson Shamrock
  • Author(s): Michael Hughes
  • 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 Dark Hours

The Dark Hours
  • Author(s): Michael Connelly
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Has a killer lain dormant for years only to strike again on New Year’s Eve? LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to find justice for an innocent victim in the new thriller from #1 New York...

The Day of the Locust

The Day of the Locust
  • Author(s): Nathanael West
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s/1940s

The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West’s Hollywood is not the glamorous “home of the stars” but a seedy world...

The Detective and the Pipe Girl

The Detective and the Pipe Girl
  • Author(s): Michael Craven
  • 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...

The Devils Playground

The Devils Playground
  • Author(s): Craig Russell
  • 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...

The Disappearing Act

The Disappearing Act
  • Author(s): Catherine Steadman
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A woman has gone missing But did she ever really exist? Mia Eliot has travelled from London to LA for pilot season. This is her big chance to make it as an actor in Hollywood, and she is ready...

The Dog of the North

The Dog of the North
  • Author(s): Elizabeth McKenzie
  • 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,...

The Dreamers

The Dreamers
  • Author(s): Karen Thompson Walker
  • 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...

The Drive

The Drive
  • Author(s): Tyler Keevil
  • 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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