Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends, the fellow members of the Women's Murder Club, investigate the death of a little girl who was shot on the steps of a San Francisco church.
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, and all Pynchon, "Inherent Vice" spotlights private eye Doc Sportello who occasionally comes out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era, as the free love of the 1960s slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fog.
Alexandria Houton will sacrifice anything to protect her orphaned little brother. When both encounter unspeakable evil in the swirling San Francisco mists, out of the darkness swoops Aidan Savage, a golden being more powerful and mysterious than any other creature of the night. The ageless Carpathian male snatches them from a hideous fate. But if ...
Like many small towns, Grace Valley, California, is full of colorful characters who happily meddle in one another's business. June Hudson, the town doctor, has lived here her entire life and knows more than her share about the residents--including the darker realities that will force this community to rally around itself and take care of its own.
When recently widowed Melinda Monroe sees an ad for a midwife-nurse practitioner, she quickly decides that the remote mountain town of Virgin River might be the perfect place to escape her heartache. Instead, she finds a home in this first novel of a new trilogy. Original.
Rice delivers her first work of nonfiction, a powerful and haunting memoir of her journey through life, from writing "Interview with the Vampire" and her 38 years as an atheist to her return to the Catholic Church.
As the only woman homicide inspector in San Francisco, Lindsay Boxer has to be tough. But nothing she has seen prepares her for the horror of the honeymoon murders, when a brutal maniac begins viciously slaughtering newlywed couples on their wedding nights. Lindsay is sickened by the deaths, but her determination to bring the murderer to justice ...
The second book in the Above the Line series finds independent filmmakers Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison at the center of Hollywood wheeling and dealing. The two friends discover that all that glitters is not gold-and that success in Tinsel Town could cost them everything-their relationships as well as their ideals.
Throughout the 1960s, a serial killer stalks the roadways between California and Oregon, convinced that he will receive punishment at the hands of, well, he's not quite sure what, though the name Bartholomew is stuck in his head. Meanwhile, two children growing up in California with their single-parent mothers slowly come to terms with their extra ...
Theres a madman on the loose in San Francisco. Lindsay Boxer and the Womens Murder Club return for the most chilling case yet in the latest entry of this bestselling series that takes unexpected twists and turns to the very end.Little, Brown and Company
When Stone Barrington's erstwhile lover, Arrington Calder, phones him to say that her husband has been murdered and she's been accused of the crime, Stone immediately goes to Los Angeles to find the real killer and exonerate Arrington. Arrington's husband, Vance, was a movie star, and the couple's glamorous Hollywood milieu gives Stone ample ...
The Dark series continues with the story of Julian and Desari, a Carpathian couple. (Carpathians are a race of vampires who do not kill humans, but who do hunt evil, human-killing vampires.) Julian, an expert vampire-hunter, must protect Desari from a nameless pursuer.
Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. In this newest work, six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love ...
In Grace Valley, California, Dr. June Hudson has managed to keep secret the passionate visits from her lover, undercover DEA agent Jim Post. When June's old high school flame returns to town, June is unsure of her feelings. But when a local woman shoots her husband and human bones turn up in June's aunt's backyard, June is almost happy for the ...
Who will tell the life story of the beloved and much-discussed Hollywood socialite Eve Benedict? When Eve selects the inquisitive writer Julie Summers as her biographer, her stepson Paul Winthrop, also a novelist, fights to protect Eve's legacy. As Julia begins to dig up the stories behind Eve's long, illustrious life in the spotlight, Julia and ...
A gripping story of danger and heroism by New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury. Sheriff's deputy Alex Brady and his K-9 partner Bo, are on a mission to protect the people of Los Angeles. Domestic terrorists are trying to make this the worst fire season in California's history. Can Alex stop this senseless destruction in time, or will ...
In the 11th Alex Cross thriller, a serial killer targets women in Los Angeles who pay more attention to their showbiz careers than to their children, and announces their deaths via e-mails signed "Mary Smith." Ironically, psychologist Alex Cross must once again choose his career over his children, because when the FBI calls upon his services to ...
Deep below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, the prehistoric predecessor of today's great white shark still thrives: the Megalodon, a 60-foot, 20-ton monster. Professor Jonas Taylor is the only man to have survived an encounter with the beast, and the only person adamant that the Meg is still in existence. But when several deep sea probes are ...
The 11th book in the best-selling Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus crime-solving series finds LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker on a dangerous search for the truth behind the mysterious death of Dr. Emil Euler Ganz, also known as Father Jupiter. A once-preeminent astrophysicist and world-renowned professor, Dr. Ganz vanished for 10 years and reemerged as the ...
Jemima is fat, British, and lonely. Her great consolations are food and her friend Ben, but when she meets Mr. Right on the Internet she presents herself as thin and glamorous. When he demands a meeting, Jemima loses weight, becomes a blonde, flies to L.A., and discovers that happiness is back home on her doorstep.
A "Today" show Summer Reads Pick, "The Story of a Marriage" is set in a climate of fear and repression--political, sexual, and racial--and portrays three people trapped by the confines of their era, and the desperate measures they are prepared to take to escape it.
A sea monster named Steve--who has developed a "thing" for for explosive oil tanker trucks--terrorizes newly libidinous Pine Cove, California, in the latest outrageous novel by the author of "Practical Demonkeeping" and "Island of the Sequined Nun".
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