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- 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,...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Present looking back 5 years
“There’s something I have to explain, my love,” he says, taking your hand in his. “That wasn’t a dream. It was an upload.” Abbie wakes in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. The man...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Venice Beach (LA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Lily, from whom she had been separated in her childhood. After stealing a suitcase of letters, clothes and photographs from her mum’s bedroom at the...
- 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 Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the author of Daisy Jones & The Six—an entrancing novel “that speaks to the Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor in us all” (Kirkus Reviews), in which a legendary film actress reflects on her relentless rise to the top...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Washington State, California, Canada, Oregon
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Current
You reach a certain age. You have a lifestyle many would envy. Still, something doesn’t feel right. Life has become routine. You sense there is more out there to experience and explore with an urge gnawing away inside to...
- 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...
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