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California Los Angeles Decker, Peter (Fictitious character) Fiction Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fiction Lazarus, Rina (Fictitious character) Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction Los Angeles (California) Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Police California Los Angeles Fiction Policewomen California Los Angeles Fiction Women detectives California Los Angeles FictionSummary: Revisit the complex circle of friends in Los Angeles' lesbian community as they struggle to make sense of a world filled with love, children, tattoos, families, weddings, funerals, and sometimes even men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LKellerman, Jonathan
Summary: Ellie Barker is a self-made millionaire by the age of 40 and is obsessed with reopening the coldest of cases - the decades-old death of the mother she never knew. She hires LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis to help. Twenty-five years ago Ellie's mother was found with a bullet in her head in a torched Cadillac that has overturned on infamously treacherous Mulholland Drive. No physical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KELFrey, James
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces and Bright Shiny Morning comes Katerina, James Frey's highly anticipated new novel set in 1992 Paris and contemporary Los Angeles. A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and heartbreak, regret and pain, the melancholy of age. Katerina, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREKellerman, Faye.
Summary: Detective Peter Decker of Los Angeles police investigates a series of murders within a religious cult. An attempt to storm the cult's compound has to be abandoned when the cult leader threatens to blow it up, along with scores of children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow and Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELKinsella, Sophie.
Summary: "Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) newly arrived in Hollywood and starry-eyed. She and her two-year-old daughter, Minnie, have relocated to L.A. to join Becky's husband, Luke, who is there to handle PR for famous actress Sage Seymour. Becky can't wait to start living the A-list lifestyle, complete with celebrity sightings, yoga retreats, and shopping trips to Rodeo Drive. But she really hopes to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINMosley, Walter.
Summary: A former black convict in Watts tries to go straight, holding a steady job, helping the town's youth and philosophizing with friends. But when a policeman starts raping and killing blacks, he turns vigilante.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSWoods, Stuart
Summary: When Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem. But the world of posh casinos, luxurious developments, and boundless wealth has a dark underbelly of crime and political intrigue. With international deals and private vendettas at stake, the villains behind the plot aren't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WOOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WOOKellerman, Faye.
Summary: Investigating the violemt murder of a bigoted youth pushes Rina Lazarus into the ghastly world of ruthless parents and lethal secrets.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M KELKhabushani, Khashayar J.
Summary: "The youngest of three brothers, K just wants to be an all-American boy--shooting hoops with his buddies and riding his Huffy around the San Fernando Valley. But K understands there's something different about himself, a longing that draws him closer to his friends while making him feel more and more alienated. At home, K must navigate another confusing identity: that of the faithful son of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHAEllroy, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ELLHamilton, Laurell K.
Summary: Heir to the throne of Faerie, Private Investigator Meredith Gentry faces unforeseen enemies and must summon magical powers to battle the evil that threatens to devour her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HAMConnelly, Michael
Summary: Representing some unsavory characters in his work as a defense lawyer, Mickey Haller takes on his first high-paying and possibly innocent client in years, but finds the case complicated by events that suggest a particularly evil perpetrator.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONCrais, Robert.
Summary: To pay back an old debt, Pike is coerced into protecting Larkin Barkley, a hard-partying young heiress whose life is in danger after a wrong place wrong time encounter that quickly escalates and spins out of control.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRAKellerman, Faye.
Summary: Billionaire genius Genoa Greeves never got over the shocking death of her favorite teacher, Bennett "Dr. Ben" Alston Little, murdered execution-style and stuffed into the trunk of his Mercedes-Benz. No arrests were ever made. Fifteen years later, the high-tech CEO reads about another execution-style murder; this time the victim is a Hollywood music producer named Primo Ekerling. There is no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KELHambly, Barbara
Summary: "1924. After six months in Hollywood, young British widow Emma Blackstone has come to love her new employer, glamourous movie-star Kitty Flint--even if her late husband's sister is one of the worst actresses she's ever seen. Looking after Kitty and her three adorable Pekinese dogs isn't work academically-minded Emma dreamed of, but Kitty rescued her when she was all alone in the world. Now, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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Summary: "For decades Malibu Creek State Park was the spectacular natural setting where Hollywood fantasies were made. But when a female camper is gunned down, it becomes a real-life killing ground. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone are assigned the case ... which Duncan fears is the latest in a series of sniper attacks that began long before Eve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLSalazar, Aida
Summary: Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALConnelly, Michael
Summary: Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONCrais, Robert.
Summary: "Loyalty, commitment, the fight against injustice--these are the things that have always driven Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. If they make a promise, they keep it. Even if it could get them killed. When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case--until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defense contractor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Crais 2015Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CRAWambaugh, Joseph.
Summary: A circle of teenage burglars that the media has dubbed The Bling Ring has taken to pillaging the homes of Hollywood celebutants, and when a pair of drug-addled young copycats stumbles upon an art heist, that's just the beginning of the disaster to come. Soon LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wambaugh 2010Connelly, Michael
Summary: Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CONKellerman, Jonathan.
Summary: When he is consulted on a cold case involving the discovery of infant remains at a neglected Tudor mansion, psychologist Alex Delaware, tracing the long history of past residents, is led down a bloody path littered with unspeakable cruelty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KELPochoda, 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: FIC POCCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M POCGattis, Ryan
Summary: On December 6, 1993, when a drug dealer called Scrappy is shot and left for dead on the lawn outside her mother's house in South Central Los Angeles, a heroin addict fingers two drug dealers as the killers, but only one of them is guilty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020