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Hi Five

Hi Five
  • Author(s): Joe Ide
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Christiana is the daughter of the biggest arms dealer on the West Coast, Angus Byrne. She’s also the sole witness and number-one suspect in the murder of her boyfriend – found dead inside her Newport Beach boutique. Angus will...

How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days

How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days
  • Author(s): K M Jackson
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

USA Today bestselling author K.M. Jackson delivers a hilarious road-trip rom-com perfect for fans of Meet Cute and When Harry Met Sally. Bethany Lu Carlisle is devastated when the tabloids report actor Keanu Reeves is about to tie the knot....

Imperial Bedrooms

Imperial Bedrooms
  • Author(s): Bret Easton Ellis
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Clay is a successful screenwriter, middle-aged and disaffected; he’s in LA to cast his new movie. However, this trip is anything other than professional, and he’s soon drifting through a louche and long-familiar circle – a world largely populated...

Inventing TV News, Live and Local in Los Angeles

Inventing TV News, Live and Local in Los Angeles
  • Author(s): Terry Anzur
  • Location(s): California, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Travel back in time to Southern California, where live TV coverage of breaking news was born. Everyone’s Child, 1949: Two rival stations in Los Angeles televise the attempted rescue of a toddler from an abandoned well pipe. For the...

IQ

IQ
  • Author(s): Joe Ide
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, the elderly are being mugged, children go missing. But word has spread: if you’ve got a case the police can’t – or...

Jamie Quinn Mystery Collection: Box Set Books 1-3 (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery)

Jamie Quinn Mystery Collection: Box Set Books 1-3 (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery)
  • Author(s): Barbara Venkataraman
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Florida
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Books 1-3 of the Jamie Quinn Mystery Series! Including: “Death by Didgeridoo”-Winner of the Indie Book of the Day award. Reluctant lawyer, Jamie Quinn, still reeling from the death of her mother, is pulled into a game of deception,...

Künstlers in Paradise

Künstlers in Paradise
  • Author(s): Cathleen Schine
  • Location(s): Venice Beach (LA), Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From WW2 onwards

There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy...

Laughing Gas

Laughing Gas
  • Author(s): P G Wodehouse
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 1930s

Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic...

Less Than Zero

Less Than Zero
  • Author(s): Bret Easton Ellis
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become...

Lie By The Pool

Lie By The Pool
  • Author(s): Susan Walter
  • Location(s): Beverly Hills
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A desperate woman. An irresistible invitation. An escalating nightmare of secrets, lies, and murder. Bree’s new home is luxurious and private, with a fancy Beverly Hills address. What a shame it’s not hers. Widowed, penniless, living in her car,...

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