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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...

Roommates

Roommates
  • Author(s): Whitney Lyles
  • Location(s): San Diego
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Mystery novelist Elise relocates back to her home town, with dog Bella. Anyone who has had to put up with a flatshare from hell will be able to identify with Elise’s seach for someone with whom she can live…

14

14
  • Author(s): Peter Clines
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Modern

Padlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches. There are some odd things about Nate’s new apartment. Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No...

90210½

90210½
  • Author(s): Jay Sanga
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Karly Cadieux is a teenage actress at the center of a hit television series. She lives a life of absurd luxury. Her shoes cost more than your car. Her car costs more than your apartment. When she takes a...

A Beautiful Way to Die

A Beautiful Way to Die
  • Author(s): Eleni Kyriacou
  • Location(s): Hollywood, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

PLAY THEIR GAME Hollywood, 1953. Young actress Ginny Watkins is turning heads. Even the legendary – and married – actor Max Whitman can’t resist the allure of the hottest new starlet. He promises Ginny the world, in return for...

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...

A Violent Masterpiece

A Violent Masterpiece
  • Author(s): Jordan Harper
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This place is a crime that can’t be solved. And that’s why we love it. LA is a brutal, burning city. It is America with nowhere to run. Each night Jake Deal captures it on a livestream to his...

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...

Alchemy of Secrets

Alchemy of Secrets
  • Author(s): Stephanie Garber
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It starts with a class in an old movie theatre. Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths, taught by a woman called the Professor. Most students believe the Professor’s stories are just fiction, but Holland St. James has always...

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