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- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
From the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit The Measure—a runaway bestseller and a Read with Jenna TODAY Show pick—comes a stunning speculative story of healing, self-discovery, forgiveness, and found friendship. “A masterful, tender exploration of love, loss, and the...
- Location(s): Silicon Valley
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Would your character change … if you had all the money in the world? And all the time? Would you become a better person? Or worse? Imagine Agatha Christie meets Michael Crichton in a fast-paced, philosophical mystery thriller. There’s...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
A small town. A deadly secret. A race against an invisible killer . . . Southern California, 1987. Rancho Santa Elena might look like paradise, but a series of violent hate crimes are disturbing the peace. When Detective Benjamin...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
(The Hollywood Thriller Trilogy Book 1) Their rise was meteoric. Only a few years before, they had been three friends from Glasgow, just trying to survive tough lives of danger and dysfunction. But on one Hollywood evening in 1993,...
- Location(s): Outer Banks, Northern California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Grieving after her father’s death, a young woman seeks solace in an Outer Banks beach town of North Carolina where her best friend’s family runs a small inn. The family welcomes Charlotte with chowder dinners and a cozy room,...
- Location(s): California, Taiwan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An engrossing and original story about a woman who moves from Taiwan to California and builds an unexpected life there, for readers of Olive Kitteridge and Hello Beautiful. Joan Liang’s life is a series of surprising developments: she never...
- Location(s): California, Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
From LA to Berlin, from present day to the 1940s, journey from glamorous Santa Monica to the deepest darkest corners of Nazi Germany. David Collins, a British private investigator living in LA, is hired by Geoff Hoffman, a billionaire...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s
It’s mid-September, a heatwave has descended on the parched hills of LA and Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy twenty-two-year-old Chrissie Montgomery, set...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Early 1900s
It’s 1907 Los Angeles. Mischievous socialite Anna Blanc is the kind of young woman who devours purloined crime novels but must disguise them behind covers of more domestically-appropriate reading. She could match wits with Sherlock Holmes, but in her...
The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
You’ve heard of the men who kill, but what about the women who loved them? It’s a baking hot summer in 1960s California and three women have formed an unlikely friendship. From the outside, Beverley, Elsie and Margot lead...
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