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- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Getting ahead in Hollywood poses a challenge for Raquel Azorian, a lowly marketing assistant at a major production company, and while she has ambition, energy, and smarts, the heroine of Candela’s wry latest doesn’t have a mentor or even...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century and early 2000s
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon – private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A....
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a...
- Location(s): Japan, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Brodie receives a call one night from a friend at the SFPD: an entire family has been senselessly gunned down in the Japantown neighborhood of the bustling city. As an American born and raised...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Meg’s life has taken a turn for the perfect. She is the envy of millions with her drop dead gorgeous husband, their two beautiful sons and her new mansion in Henley. Her celebrity PA days are over. But desperate...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime
An involved story, with a beautiful, unique style. Graphic and dark. A police brutality case provides Ed Exley with an opportunity to make a name for himself but by testifying against other police officers he makes enemies as well...
- Location(s): Lake Como, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Hallie Elliot has a perfect life. She is an up-and-coming interior designer in one of San Francisco’s most sought after firms, and has just recently become engaged to Peter, a brilliant young journalist. But when she stumbles upon Peter...
- Location(s): California, Napa Valley
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Having suffered in silence since the tragic death of their young daughter, Lola and Duncan Drummond’s last chance to rediscover their love for one another lies in an anniversary holiday to the gorgeous Napa Valley. Unable to talk about...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1969/70
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
A collection of short stories set in and around LA under the editorship of Denis Hamilton
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