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Crescent

Crescent
  • Author(s): Diana Abu-Jaber
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Thirty-nine-year-old Sitine, never married, lives with a devoted Iraqi-immigrant uncle and an adoring dog named King Babar. She works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, her passions aroused only by the preparation of food—until an unbearably handsome Arabic...

Daisy Jones and The Six

Daisy Jones and The Six
  • Author(s): Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): The 1960s & 1970s

‘For a while, Daisy Jones & The Six were everywhere. Their albums were on every turntable, they sold out arenas from coast to coast, their sound defined an era. And then, on 12 July 1979, they split.’ ‘Nobody ever...

Devil in a Blue Dress

Devil in a Blue Dress
  • Author(s): Walter Mosley
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

‘I need to find somebody and I might need a little help looking…’ The summer of ’48 in the city of Angels and there’s heat on the streets when Daphne Monet hits the sidewalk. Heat when she disappears with...

Engaged in Danger: A Jamie Quinn Mystery (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery Book 4) (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mysteries) (Volume 4)

Engaged in Danger: A Jamie Quinn Mystery (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery Book 4) (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mysteries) (Volume 4)
  • Author(s): Barbara Venkataraman
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Florida
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Finally, life is good for reluctant family law attorney, Jamie Quinn–her father may get his visa soon, her boyfriend is the bomb, and her law practice is growing like crazy–but when she agrees to take on a high-profile divorce...

Everybody Knows

Everybody Knows
  • Author(s): Jordan Harper
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

n Hollywood, nobody talks. But everybody whispers. Welcome to Mae Pruett’s LA. A ‘black-bag’ publicist at one of Hollywood’s most powerful crisis PR firms, Mae’s job isn’t to get good news out, it’s to keep the bad news in...

Fly Me

Fly Me
  • Author(s): Daniel Riley
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1972

The year is 1972, and the Los Angeles beaches are the center of the world. Literally dropping into the embers of the drug and surfer scene is Suzy Larsen, who has dropped out of college and followed her mysterious...

Freaks I’ve Met

Freaks I’ve Met
  • Author(s): Donald Jans
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Spokane, Washington, is nearly perfect for most people, but Jack Fitzpatrick is not one of them. Hours after graduation and armed with his final paycheck from his nemesis, Mrs Pohlkiss, Jack heads for Southern California determined to prove that...

Gallery of the Dead

Gallery of the Dead
  • Author(s): Chris Carter
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Thirty-seven years in the force, and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mind, what’s inside that room would be it.’ That’s what a LAPD Lieutenant tells Detectives Hunter and Garcia of the...

Get Shorty

Get Shorty
  • Author(s): Elmore Leonard
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

Miami loan shark Chili Palmer is ice-cool, whether he’s retrieving stolen property or collecting money for the mob. Chasing a bad debt leads him to the bright lights of Hollywood – and to a true story that would make...

Happy Little Bluebirds

Happy Little Bluebirds
  • Author(s): Louise Levene
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

It is September 1940 and Evelyn Murdoch, a translator from the Postal Censorship department, is uprooted from her home in wartime Woking and transferred to Hollywood. She is to assist a mysterious British agent in his attempts to outwit...

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