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Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
MacThomas Pockets, former Scottish Special Forces solider-turned-bodyguard for movie star Maybe Joe Sue, when she can no longer keep up the façade of her “perfect” life and hits rock bottom, steps in, answering the question: how far would you go—really—to save someone you love?
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Fashion-obsessed Abby Ives lands an internship at her favorite boutique for the summer, but falls for her fellow intern Jordi Perez, against whom she is vying for the one paid position at the end of the internship.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this powerful novel of stories handed down and handed on, and those held close to the heart, Julian Künstler, during the 2020 pandemic, is trapped in Venice, California, with his glamorous, eccentric 93-year-old grandmother who shares her experiences upon arriving in the US after escaping Nazi Germany.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When uber-stylist—and uber-bully—Bebe Braddock is murdered, and Jaine’s prints are all over the murder weapon, she, while navigating a cougar-style romance, must clear own name before the color of the next outfit she wears is orange.
145) The promise
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Hired to find a missing woman, who was being blackmailed, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike find their case is somehow connected with LAPD officer Scott James and his K-9 partner, Maggie's pursuit of an armed and dangerous thief.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a fast-paced sequel to The Hellfire Club, Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington D.C., arrive in Los Angeles on their latest case, only to be pursued by sinister forces from Hollywood's stages to the newly founded Church of Scientology.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"As a biracial orphan, Rika has never felt like she fully belonged to her family or the Little Tokyo community in LA, until she embarks on a fairy tale-like quest to discover if America's leading movie star could be her biological mother"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Working as a bodyguard for a spoiled federal witness, Joe Pike hatches a desperate plan to disappear with the woman in the underworld of Los Angeles and turn on her would-be killers, an effort in which he enlists the help of private investigator Elvis Cole.
149) 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...
150) The hunt
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Struggling to rebuild her life, former police detective Kate Myles decides to try her hand at private detective work--but she gets much more than she bargained for when she takes on the case of a celebrated painter found dead in a downtown loft. When Margot Starling's body was found, the cause of death was assumed to be suicide. Despite her beauty, talent, and fame, she struggled with a host of demons. But as Kate digs deeper, she learns that Margot...
152) Heat 2: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael Mann, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, teams up with author Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann's first crime novel--an explosive return to the world and characters of his classic film Heat--an all-new story that illuminates what happened before and after the iconic film.--One day after the end of Heat, Chris Shiherlis is holed up in Koreatown, wounded, half delirious, and desperately trying to escape LA. Hunting him is LAPD...
153) The kill club
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Jazz and Joaquin's foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens thirteen-year-old Joaquin's life. Over and over, child services fails to intervene, and Joaquin is running out of time. Then Jazz gets a blocked call from someone offering a solution. There are others like her--people the law has failed. They've formed an underground network of 'helpers', each...
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