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Dog Soldiers

Dog Soldiers
  • Author(s): Robert Stone
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, New Mexico, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1970s

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he’ll find action – and profit – by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go...

Mile High

Mile High
  • Author(s): Rebecca Chance
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

First class is about to get dangerous . . . Pure Air’s new LuxeLiner is flying from London to LA – its inaugural journey – with a first-class cabin packed with A List celebrities. As the feuding crew compete...

Once Bitten

Once Bitten
  • Author(s): Stephen Leather
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

There’s a full moon over Los Angeles, and for police psychologist Jamie Beaverbook that can only mean one thing: the crazies will be out in force. But when he is called into the station for a consult in the...

Santa Fe Rules

Santa Fe Rules
  • Author(s): Stuart Woods
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Santa Fe
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 1900s

Affluent Hollywood producer Wolf Willet has engine trouble with his small plane and lands by the Grand Canyon. He happens to read a report in the NYT that his wife Julia and his business partner and seemingly he himself...

Tell Me Everything

Tell Me Everything
  • Author(s): Laura Kay
  • Location(s): Brighton, Joshua Tree, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): RomCom, Fiction, LGBTQ+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Would you entrust your life choices to someone hell-bent on avoiding theirs? Natasha has everything under control, at least that’s what her clients think. As a therapist, she has all the answers but when it comes to her personal...

Temptation Island

Temptation Island
  • Author(s): Victoria Fox
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Part set on the fictional island of Cacatra, but most of the action happens in Los Angeles. Welcome to Paradise. Only the rich are invited…only the strongest survive. But is it heaven on earth or a devil s playground?...

Bungalow 2

Bungalow 2
  • Author(s): Danielle Steel
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Steel’s latest novel follows the travails of a demure Marin County housewife who finds herself caught up in the glamorous world of Hollywood. Tanya Harris is a contented wife and mother (beautiful for her age, of course) whose children...

A Christmas Tale

A Christmas Tale
  • Author(s): Austin Crawley
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

Few Christmas stories hold as much fascination as the story, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Inspired by the Dickens tale, A Christmas Carol, three young women decide to hold a séance to raise the spirits of Christmas Past,...

A Red Death

A Red Death
  • Author(s): Walter Mosley
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

It’s 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of “the hurting business” and into the housing (and favour) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax...

Actress

Actress
  • Author(s): Anne Enright
  • Location(s): Dublin, Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O’Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London’s West End. Katherine’s life is...

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