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- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
At a glittering after-party on the night of the Academy Awards, author Mirren McLean celebrates her win with her childhood friends Davie Johnston and Zander Leith by her side. Three kids from a tough street in Glasgow, the dazzling...
- Location(s): Hollywood, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s onwards
A sheltered young woman living at the Chateau Marmont falls under the spell of a scandalous, secretive man as all of Hollywood’s glamour swirls around her–a stunning feminist reimagining of Jane Eyre from the New York Times bestselling author...
- Location(s): Washington DC, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
In equal parts hilarious, poignant, suspenseful and thrilling, The Christmas Train by David Baldacci is a delightful journey filled with memorable characters who have packed their bags with as much wisdom as mischief . . . Disillusioned journalist Tom...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A struggling author discovers the dark side of fame when a stalker begins reenacting violent events from her thriller in this electrifying and twisty new novel. When Zoe Ann Weiss moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
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