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Party of Two

Party of Two
  • Author(s): Jasmine Guillory
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking. Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe’s mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she...

Peppermint Cream Die

Peppermint Cream Die
  • Author(s): Carol E Ayer
  • Location(s): Central California
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When home bakery owner Kayla Jeffries discovers her friend has been strangled, she draws upon her strengths as an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) to help solve the murder and restore peace to her quiet oceanside community.

Pizza Girl

Pizza Girl
  • Author(s): Jean Kyoung Frazier
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A riotously funny yet difficult story of two women in opposite life stages but similar mental states, Pizza Girlfollows an 18-year-old pregnant protagonist floundering as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles. She encounters Jenny, a middle-aged stay-at-home...

Play It as It Lays

Play It as It Lays
  • Author(s): Joan Didion
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking. ‘Benny called for a round of Cuba Libres and I gave him some...

Pool House

Pool House
  • Author(s): Mary H K Choi
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stevie cannot wait to escape her mother. Whilst many people dream of moving to LA and into the spotlight, she is desperate to get out and start over. Moon is many things: an out-of-work actress, a recovering addict, a...

Postcards from the Edge

Postcards from the Edge
  • Author(s): Carrie Fisher
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like ‘something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting’. Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how she’ll cope...

Premeditated Mortgage

Premeditated Mortgage
  • Author(s): Carol E Ayer
  • Location(s): Sierra Foothills
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mother-daughter real estate agents Autumn Cassidy and Sierra Madison become the top suspects in a murder investigation when their nemesis, Darla Tyson, is found dead at one of their listings. Despite their assertion they were shopping for Christmas trees...

Pretty Things

Pretty Things
  • Author(s): Janelle Brown
  • Location(s): Lake Tahoe (California)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two wildly different women–one a grifter, the other an heiress–are brought together by the scam of a lifetime in a page-turner from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear. Nina once bought into the idea that...

Properties of Thirst

Properties of Thirst
  • Author(s): Marianne Wiggins
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the...

Pulp

Pulp
  • Author(s): Charles Bukowski
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Charles Bukowski’s brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski’s trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century. Nicky Belane,...

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