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- Location(s): Austria, Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, In Translation
- Era(s): 1930s/40s
An artist’s life, a pact with the devil, a novel about the dangerous illusions of the silver screen. G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest, perhaps the greatest director of his era: when the Nazis seized power he was filming...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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,...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking), San Francisco
- Genre(s): Thriller, Espionage
- Era(s): Contemporary
A fresh and vivid new voice brings a contemporary edge to the classic espionage novel. At twenty-six, Princeton grad Michael Wang is trapped. Stifled under the bamboo ceiling at General Motors, he’s working quietly on a breakthrough in self-driving...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist – a laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall’s pulse-pounding journey in the riveting and deeply moving sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Apple TV+ show, The Last Thing He Told Me. Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared,...
The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): 1990s
Award-winning author and immigration attorney Orlando Ortega-Medina returns to 1990s San Francisco in The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants, a powerful family drama that plays out within a captivating legal thriller. Attorney Marc Mendes, the estranged son of a prominent...
- Location(s): Northern California
- Genre(s): Horror, Thriller
- Era(s): N/A
Twin Peaks meets Welcome to Night Vale in this surreal, supernatural thriller by a Costa-shortlisted author “Gripping, compelling and otherworldly” – DAVID QUANTICK When her twin brother goes missing in Northern California, Vivian Owens follows his trail to the...
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