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The Saddest Girl on the Beach

The Saddest Girl on the Beach
  • Author(s): Heather Frese
  • 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,...

The Satisfaction Café

The Satisfaction Café
  • Author(s): Kathy Wang
  • 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...

The Scientist of Berlin

The Scientist of Berlin
  • Author(s): Daniel Pembrey
  • 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...

The Second Murderer

The Second Murderer
  • Author(s): Denise Mina
  • 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...

The Secret Life Of Anna Blanc

The Secret Life Of Anna Blanc
  • Author(s): Jennifer Kincheloe
  • 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

The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Arnott
  • 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...

The Sellout

The Sellout
  • Author(s): Paul Beatty
  • Location(s): California, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game....

The Seventh Veil of Salome

The Seventh Veil of Salome
  • Author(s): Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century (Golden Age)

Golden Age Hollywood – a city overflowing with gossip, scandal, and intrigue. Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary temptress. So when the film’s mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an...

The Silent Fountain

The Silent Fountain
  • Author(s): Victoria Fox
  • Location(s): Tuscany, Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1970s and modern

Hollywood, 1975: Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien Lockhart into the arms of Giovanni Moretti, and it seems her fortunes have finally changed. Until she meets his sister, and learns that dark shadows haunt her new husband’s past… Tuscany, Present...

The Soulmate Equation

The Soulmate Equation
  • Author(s): Christina Lauren
  • Location(s): San Diego
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jess is a numbers genius, but when it comes to love she’s had to accept there is no magic formula. Juggling a career with raising her daughter, it’s not surprising that her love life is. . . non-existent. When...

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