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22) Windhall
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
An investigative journalist in modern Los Angeles attempts to solve the Golden Age murder of a Hollywood starlet.
Author
Series
Regan Reilly mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Vacationing in California while her new husband, Jack, attends a business conference, private investigator Regan Reilly checks out a vegan family friend's concerns about an unscrupulous investment manager and uncovers a vast scam extending throughout the California coast.
24) Siren queen
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chinese American actress Luli Wei, desperate to become a star, bargains with blood and ancient magic to realize her dreams, but the steep price for success may turn her into something she despises.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s, Freddy Otash, the Tattle Tyrant for Confidential magazine who held Hollywood hostage, decides to tell all, in this tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films, and strange bedfellows.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While in Hollywood overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, novelist Patrick Hamlin discovers that a company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water is responsible for the recent droughts and wildfires and teams up with a starlet to investigate the city’s darker side.
Author
Series
Eastside brewery volume 3
Publisher
Mia Hopkins
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
By day Angel does all the grunt work at his family's struggling L.A. brewery. By night he blows off steam at an underground fight club. Because of the pandemic the brewery needs a miracle to survive and that miracle could cost him the only person who's ever believed in him.
30) Love me do
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While visiting her sister in Hollywood, Phoebe Chapman plays matchmaker for her sister’s personal trainer and the sweet carpenter next door, and caught up with writing love letters and an unexpected friendship with a reclusive 82-year-old film star, finds herself falling for the real LA—and someone unexpected.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In Los Angeles in the summer of 1962, Freddy O, a corrupt ex-cop, dope fiend and freelance extortionist, believes Marilyn Monroe’s death and the kidnapping of a B-movie starlet are riddles only he can solve as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth.
33) A man named Doll
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff drop beneath the Hollywood sign with his beloved half-Chihuahua half-Terrier, George. A veteran of both the Navy and LAPD, Doll supplements his meager income as a P.I. by working through the night at a local Thai spa to protect the women who work there from clients who have trouble understanding the word "no." When things get out-of-hand with one particularly...
34) The hunt
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus return to Los Angeles when a kidnapping hits close to home. Peter and his partner, Detective Tyler McAdams, are thrown into an unsolved case and propelled into action when a body is found in the very woods where a man previously went missing in upstate New York. But that's not the only crisis that Peter has to deal with. Teresa McLaughlin, the biological mother of Peter's foster son, Gabe, has fled to Los Angeles...
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