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- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lonely, depressed, Vermont transplant Mirabelle Buttersfield, who sells expensive evening gloves nobody ever buys at Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills and spends her evenings watching television with her two cats. She attempts to forge a relationship with middle-aged, womanizing,...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1939
I will never understand why murder is considered such a lowbrow speciality in Hollywood. September, 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock’s...
- Location(s): Santa Ynez
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Early 2000s
Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences, since the day on...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s/70s
No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from...
- Location(s): Central California
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kayla Jeffries, home bakery owner and Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), once more finds herself involved in a murder case when her boyfriend, restaurateur Jason Banks, is suspected of killing his longtime nemesis.
- Location(s): California, The American South
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
Spells and Oregano: Book II in The Secret Spice Cafe Trilogy
- Location(s): Long Beach
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s-2014
A mother desperate to save her twin sons, a war veteran in torment, a beautiful young psychic with a terrible secret, a powerful magician with a shattered soul, and a Queen steeped in history and glory. These extraordinary beings...
- Location(s): Central California
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Home bakery owner and Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Kayla Jeffries has been hired for the Gourmet and Stay Valentine’s Weekend at the historic Countryside Inn in Los Robles, CA. When one of her fellow cooks is murdered during dinner...
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