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- Location(s): Hollywood, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s, 1970s
Beau Rosenwald – overweight, not particularly handsome, and improbably charismatic – arrives in Los Angles in 1962 with nothing but an ill-fitting suit and a pair of expensive brogues. By the late 1970s he has helped found the most...
Melting the Snow on Hester Street
- Location(s): Hollywood, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First three decades of 20th Century
Sumptuously evoking the Golden Age of Hollywood, a time when money is built on greed and love can be a trick of the light, Daisy Waugh’s stunning new novel is a compelling portrait of love, fame, and survival. It...
- Location(s): Hollywood, San Diego, Yosemite
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Lara Richards jets off to glamorous California, the last thing she’s expecting is to find her old friend Helen transformed from a clipboard-clasping frump into a shimmering surf goddess. The secret of her blissful new life? The mysterious...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1939
World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio ‘fixer’, covering up crimes of the studio players to protect the billion-dollar industry that built Los Angeles. When one of the...
- Location(s): Hollywood, Santa Fe
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Late 1900s
Affluent Hollywood producer Wolf Willet has engine trouble with his small plane and lands by the Grand Canyon. He happens to read a report in the NYT that his wife Julia and his business partner and seemingly he himself...