Kenna, Alex
Summary: "Kate Myles was a promising Los Angeles police detective, until an accident and opioid addiction blew up her family and destroyed her career. Struggling to rebuild her life, Kate 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KENHummel, Maria
Summary: "Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven't spoken to one another in over four decades. As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024
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Summary: "A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking. Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe's mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior senator Max Powell. Olivia has zero...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUIBunn, T. Davis
Summary: Young line producer Danny Byrd is well-known in Hollywood for being someone who gets things done on time and under budget. But when his reputation takes a beating after his partner-- and former best friend-- makes off with their investors' money, Danny has but one chance to redeem himself and restore his ruined career. LA lawyer Megan Pierce sacrificed years proving herself to bosses only to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BUNReid, Taylor Jenkins
Summary: "Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIHowell, Dorothy (Dorothy A.)
Summary: L.A. fashionista Haley Randolph just spent two weeks in Europe with her boyfriend Ty Cameron, owner of Holt's Department Store. Life would be perfect if she could just get her hands on the new Sinful handbag--and if she could discover how her nemesis Tiffany Markham ended up dead in her trunk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWKingsbury, Karen.
Summary: In the fourth and final chapter of the series, Bailey's planning her dream wedding to Brandon Paul in Los Angeles, but doubts are wracking her mind. Did she make the right choice in choosing Brandon, or should she return home to Bloomington, Indiana, and be with Cody Coleman, her first love?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KINHoward, Linda
Summary: When Brett Rutland, Carter Engineering's top troubleshooter, is sent to the Los Angeles office to investigate a case of embezzlement, he falls for accountant Tessa Conway, but their love is tested when the identity of the embezzler is revealed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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Summary: Line producer Danny Byrd is well-known in Hollywood for being someone who gets things done on time and under budget. But when his reputation takes a beating after his partner-- and former best friend-- makes off with their investors' money, Danny has but one chance to redeem himself and restore his ruined career. LA lawyer Megan Pierce sacrificed years proving herself to bosses only to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUNKrantz, Judith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KRAReid, Taylor Jenkins
Summary: "Hannah Martin's life isn't shaping up into much of anything. Since graduating college eight years ago, she has lived in six different cities and held countless meaningless jobs ... She takes up residence in her best friend Gabby's guest room. Along with Gabby and Gabby's husband Mark, [she goes] out to a bar where they meet up with some of [their] old friends, including Hannah's high school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSPochoda, Ivy
Summary: "In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles, they're referred to as these women. These women on the corner... These women in the club... These women who won't stop asking questions... These women who got what they deserved... Ivy Pochoda creates a kaleidoscope of loss, power, and hope featuring five very different women whose lives are steeped in danger and anguish. They're...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M POCMosley, Walter.
Summary: Charles Blakey, a young man who can't find a job and who has fallen behind on his mortgage payments for the home that's been in his family for generations, cannot say no when a stranger offers to rent the basement for $50,000 in cash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: "Set in the small California coastal town of Miramar Bay, a dying young man, Lucas Quarterfield, must say goodbye to the woman he loves. Almost fifty years later through unusual circumstances he receives as second chance to be near the only woman he ever wanted"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUNWaxman, Abbi
Summary: "A young woman moves to Los Angeles to escape her life and discovers she doesn't have to leave all of herself behind to make a fresh start, from USA Today bestselling author Abbi Waxman. When Laura Costello moves to Los Angeles, hoping to finally get away from her overprotective family, she doesn't expect to be homeless after a week. (She's almost certain she didn't start that fire . . ....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAXGuillory, Jasmine
Summary: "When someone asks you to spend your life with him, it shouldn't come as a surprise--or happen in front of 45,000 people. When freelance writer Nikole Paterson goes to a Dodgers game with her actor boyfriend, his man bun, and his bros, the last thing she expects is a scoreboard proposal. Saying no isn't the hard part--they've only been dating for five months, and he can't even spell her name...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GUIBrockmann, Suzanne
Summary: When U.S. Navy SEAL Chief Wes Skelly was sent to L.A. on assignment, he agreed to go on a blind date with beautiful single mother Brittany Evans, sister-in-law of a fellow SEAL. After all, he had been secretly in love for years, albeit with a woman who belonged to another man. So what did he have to lose? Plenty, it turned out. Because suddenly, the woman he thought he could never have was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROConnelly, Michael
Summary: A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, to rebuild and lead the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division. For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M CONLove, Melissa Scrivner
Summary: "An astonishing debut crime thriller about an unforgettable woman who combines the genius and ferocity of Lisbeth Salander with the ruthless ambition of Walter White. The Crenshaw Six are a small but up-and-coming gang in South Central LA who have recently been drawn into an escalating war between rival drug cartels. To outsiders, the Crenshaw Six appear to be led by a man named Garcia. but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVCopperman, E. J.
Summary: New Jersey prosecutor Sandy Moss is tired of petty criminals, and a new job at a glitzy Los Angeles law firm seems the perfect career move. Putting 3,000 miles between her and her ex-boyfriend is just an added bonus. But on Sandy's first morning as a family attorney, she inadvertently kills her new career stone dead when she offends her boss during a meeting with the firm's top celebrity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COPGentry, Amy
Summary: "Claire "Mac" Woods - a professor enjoying her newfound hotshot status at an academic conference - finally has the acceptance and admiration she has long craved. But at the conference's hotel bar, Mac is surprised to run into a face from a past she'd rather forget: the moneyed, effortlessly perfect Gwendolyn Whitney, Mac's foil, rival, and former best friend. When Gwen moved to town in high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GENMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Best friends Maggie and Connie, both sixty-years-old, dub voices and sounds for B-rated movies in Los Angeles. Both eager to escape aspects of their lives, the two pack up a van and commence a road trip to Connie's Aunt's Texas chicken farm. During their travels, they encounter a slew of colorful characters, amusing tourist traps, and beautiful scenery, all of which help create a life-changing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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Summary: Arriving in the turbulent and exciting city of Los Angeles just at the turn of the 20th century, Kit Shannon dreams of a future as a lawyer. Drawn into the upper-class world, Kit feels a burning desire to seek justice for the poor and oppressed, and in the courtroom is forced to confront an attack against the Christian faith she holds dear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2001