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Watch Him Die

Watch Him Die
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modn

ONLY ONE PERSON CAN SAVE YOU. AND HE WANTS YOU DEAD.  The LAPD find a man dead at home. Nothing suggests foul-play but elements of the victim’s house show that something is deeply wrong. Meanwhile, in Glasgow, DI Rachel...

Watch Me Disappear

Watch Me Disappear
  • Author(s): Janelle Brown
  • Location(s): Desolation Wilderness
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s been a year since Billie Flanagan–a Berkeley mom with an enviable life–went on a solo hike in Desolation Wilderness and vanished from the trail. Her body was never found, just a shattered cellphone and a solitary hiking boot....

Watch Over Me

Watch Over Me
  • Author(s): Nina Lacour
  • Location(s): Northern California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Modern

Mila is used to being alone. Maybe that’s why she said yes. Yes to a second chance in this remote place, among the flowers and the fog and the crash of waves far below. But she hadn’t known about...

We Begin at the End

We Begin at the End
  • Author(s): Chris Whitaker
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

With the staggering intensity of James Lee Burke and the absorbing narrative of Jane Harper’s The Dry, We Begin at the End is a powerful novel about absolute love and the lengths we will go to keep our family...

We Run the Tides

We Run the Tides
  • Author(s): Vendela Vida
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

Teenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighbourhood. They know Sea Cliff’s homes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters – as well as the...

What Still Burns

What Still Burns
  • Author(s): Elle Grawl
  • Location(s): Northern California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alexis “Lex” Blake swore she would never return to the town where she’d lost her home and her family in a devastating fire that only she survived and can barely remember. But when her aunt dies, leaving behind a...

When I was Alice

When I was Alice
  • Author(s): Jennifer Murgia
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Time Slip
  • Era(s): 1953 and present day.

Grace Brighton climbs up the top of the Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles to make an important wish but instead falls and, rendered unconscious, wakes up in 1953 where everyone believes that she is emerging film star, Alice Montgomery....

When the Stars Go Dark

When the Stars Go Dark
  • Author(s): Paula McLain
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anna Hart is a missing persons detective in San Francisco. When tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino to grieve. She lived there as a child with her beloved...

While We Were Dating

While We Were Dating
  • Author(s): Jasmine Guillory
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can a Hollywood romance work in the real world? Ben Stephens has never been one to mix business and pleasure, but when he lands a huge ad campaign featuring movie star, Anna Gardiner, and it turns out she’s as...

Who Are We? ~ Venice

Who Are We? ~ Venice
  • Author(s): Michael Onofrey
  • Location(s): Venice Beach (LA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): mid-1960s and on

Venice, California, 1965–Albert Zay, nineteen years old, has moved to Venice from the San Fernando Valley to pursue a penchant for drawing and watercolors, day job enlisted for reasons of necessity. In a mixture of circumstances that embrace a...

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