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- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
When evidence links a brutal murder in 1989 to a convicted rapist named Clayton Pell, the case should be water-tight. Pell’s DNA was found on the victim – but he was only eight years old at the time. This...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When the bodies of eleven and twelve-year-old sisters, Tessa and Megan, are found at the bottom of a ravine—dressed in matching pastel summer outfits, their small bodies broken from the fall—Detective Katie Scott is called to one of the...
The Gangster We Are All Looking For
- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In 1978, six Vietnamese refugees were pulled from the sea just off California. In San Diego, a little girl’s matter-of-fact innocence masks the ghostly traumas that still haunt her: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland: the memory of a...
- Location(s): The Salton Sea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
The year is 1978. Ares Ramirez, age 12, lives with his mother, Laurel, and his younger brother Malcolm in a trailer at the edge of the Salton Sea, an unintentionally man-made body of water in the middle of the...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California’s Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the...
- 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....
- 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 Marigold Cottages Murder Collective
- Location(s): Santa Barbara
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Mrs B, landlady of the Marigold Cottages, only rents to favoured tenants, and they’re an eccentric (read: odd, slightly broken) bunch. There’s anxious playwright Sophie, agoraphobe over-sharer Hamilton, single mum and sculptor Ocean, perfectionist Lily-Ann, and the ever-mysterious Nicholas....
- 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...
- 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...
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