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- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In 1978, six Vietnamese refugees were pulled from the sea just off California. In San Diego, a little girl’s matter-of-fact innocence masks the ghostly traumas that still haunt her: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland: the memory of a...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered in the Santa Monica Mountains, LAPD Detective Jessica Allen knows this isn’t the work of a first-time killer. She’s seen this MO before – two and a half years...
- Location(s): London, Los Angeles, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
‘Move over Jackie Collins, there’s a new blockbuster star in town.’ New! Magazine ‘An addictive plot that is packed with twists and turns. Prepare for larger than life characters, fabulous locations and plenty of humour.’ The Sun When friends...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Venice Beach (LA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Lily, from whom she had been separated in her childhood. After stealing a suitcase of letters, clothes and photographs from her mum’s bedroom at the...
- Location(s): Italy, Los Angeles, United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s and 2000s
The story begins on the Italian coast in 1962. A young innkeeper watches in disbelief as a beautiful American girl gets out of a boat and climbs towards his hotel. She turns out to be an actress, on the...
- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Dead women are showing up in the desert east of San Diego, and no one understands why. When the story comes to the attention of reporter Natalie Ellis, she can’t help but make comparisons to the tragic deaths she’d...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders...
- 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): 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): Los Angeles, New York City (NYC), Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
The book is set among Jewish-Americans in the early 1950’s, the McCarthy years of loyalty oaths. Bea Nightingale,in her 50s is divorced in NYC where she teaches English and has put her life on hold since her divorce. She...
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