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- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Lae 1930s
It’s 1938 and the exclusive Oriental nightclub in San Francisco’s Forbidden City is holding auditions for showgirls. In the dark, scandalous glamour of the club, three girls from very different backgrounds stumble into each other lives. All the girls...
- Location(s): Arizona, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Set mostly in Arizona and L.A., Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night. Sallis combines murder, treachery and payback in a sinister plot with resonances of 1940s...
- Location(s): Monterey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
John Steinbeck’s paean to the Monterey County of his youth, Cannery Row contains an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw in Penguin Modern Classics. In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits – gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists...
- 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): Japan, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Brodie receives a call one night from a friend at the SFPD: an entire family has been senselessly gunned down in the Japantown neighborhood of the bustling city. As an American born and raised...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 21st Century
‘As soon as they processed my release Noah and I hit the ground running. A change of clothes. A wig. An inconspicuous sedan. We doubled back once, twice, then drove south when we were really headed east. In San...
- Location(s): California, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer doubts that it will be anything as simple as a traffic accident. The scene is more gruesome than anything she has...
- Location(s): China, San Francisco
- Era(s): Modern and pre-war
LuLing Young is in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a...
- Location(s): Dublin, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
How do you know where you belong? In June 1988, Elizabeth Kelly’s parents think she belongs at home in Ireland. Her boyfriend is certain of it. Unwilling to settle down just yet, she decides to spend the summer in...
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