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The Last Pilot

The Last Pilot
  • Author(s): Benjamin Johncock
  • Location(s): California, Houston, Mojave Desert
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Set against the backdrop of one of the most emotionally charged periods in American history, The Last Pilot begins in the bone-dry Mojave Desert during the late 1940s, where US Air Force test pilots are racing to break the sound barrier....

The Lemon Orchard

The Lemon Orchard
  • Author(s): Luanne Rice
  • Location(s): Malibu
  • Era(s): Modern

Julia is in California at her aunt and uncle’s lemon orchard house sitting for them while they are in Ireland. The author pays superb attention to detail, with the vivid descriptions, and characters who are dealing with love, loss,...

The Samaritan

The Samaritan
  • Author(s): Mason Cross
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered in the Santa Monica Mountains, LAPD Detective Jessica Allen knows this isn’t the work of a first-time killer. She’s seen this MO before – two and a half years...

The Sea Sisters

The Sea Sisters
  • Author(s): Lucy Clarke
  • Location(s): Bali, California, Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Two sisters, one life-changing journey… There are some currents in the relationship between sisters that run so dark and so deep, it’s better for the people swimming on the surface never to know what’s beneath . . . Katie’s...

The Sheep Walker’s Daughter

The Sheep Walker’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Sydney Avey
  • Location(s): California, The Basque Country
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

A Korean War widow’s difficult mother dies before revealing the identity of her daughter’s father and his cultural heritage. As Dee sorts through what little her mother left, she unearths puzzling clues that raise more questions: Why did Leora...

The Sisters Brothers

The Sisters Brothers
  • Author(s): Patrick deWitt
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlies Sisters, ride – fighting, shooting, and drinking their way to Sacramento. But their prey isn’t an easy mark, the...

This is How it Really Sounds

This is How it Really Sounds
  • Author(s): Stuart Archer Cohen
  • Location(s): Alaska, California, Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Ranging from the wicked noir Shanghai of 1946, to the echo chambers of Hollywood, to remote, snow-covered mountains, This Is How it Really Sounds follows three men, each in search of a different life. Small-town Alaskan “Harry” Harrington is...

Trinity

Trinity
  • Author(s): Nigel May
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Move over Jackie Collins, there’s a new blockbuster star in town.’ New! Magazine ‘An addictive plot that is packed with twists and turns. Prepare for larger than life characters, fabulous locations and plenty of humour.’ The Sun When friends...

Undeniably You

Undeniably You
  • Author(s): Jewel E Ann
  • Location(s): Palo Alto
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

One crazy dog—one awkward vet—one naked pool guy—and one life-changing month in California to make friends, fall in love, and twist fate. Who gets paid to walk a dog and recline by the pool all day? Sydney Montgomery, aspiring...

Unlucky 13

Unlucky 13
  • Author(s): James Patterson
  • Location(s): California, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer doubts that it will be anything as simple as a traffic accident. The scene is more gruesome than anything she has...

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