About Sue Hinkin: Raised in Chicago, Sue Hinkin is a former college administrator, TV news photographer (one of the very first women in this job) and NBC-TV art department staffer. With a B.A. from St. Olaf College, she completed graduate work at the University of Michigan and was a Cinematography Fellow at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles where she lived for many years. She is a puppy foster volunteer—latest failed foster is a white bichon/poodle mix named Harley. She lives in … [Read more...]
Confessions of a Carnivore by Diane Lefer
After Rae's ear is shot off by a jittery security guard at the health food store, the insurance settlement allows her to take a year off from teaching. She spends it volunteering at the Los Angeles Zoo. Except for her best friend Jennie, Rae has little use for human beings. She loves cats–lots of cats. The refugee she cares for, airlifted from Afghanistan to safety, is not a person but a mountain goat. As the US goes to war and baboons fall deeply, tragically, in love, … [Read more...]
Bargain Book: The Wife of a Lesser Man by Sandy Appleyard
Check book price before you buy, as prices can change due to expiration of the sale or other technical issues. Mark is chief of police for the Los Angeles police department. He’s a strong family man, used to being pulled in all directions, and loves it that way. Life with Shelley and his daughters could not be better, until fate delivers a hammer blow and he suffers a heart attack. Timing could not be worse, a serial killer strikes just as Mark is released from hospital. Juggling work and … [Read more...]
Bargain Book: Post Pattern by David Chill
This book is bargain priced from 11/30/2014 until 12/05/2014 After a football star is shot at on a California freeway, he approaches Burnside, a former college football player who has become a successful private investigator. As Burnside unravels a complex series of baffling leads, the body count piles up. He encounters beautiful girls, wayward athletes and overworked cops on his way to cracking a case that no one else wants to touch. And Burnside is also forced to confront a betrayal … [Read more...]
Bargain Book for 10/28/2014: His Unquenchable Desire by Joy Tremay
This book is bargain priced from 10/28/2014 until 01/10/2015 What would you do if a sinfully handsome man was determined to get you into his bed? For spirited beauty Cathlene Patterson, the answer is to ignore her wanton urges despite being held in a carnal daze. Far from being a pushover, she's learned how to navigate the trials of life and knows how to set a man straight. Powerful and cynical businessman Nick Maxwell is an expert in seduction and doesn't take rejection well. When he … [Read more...]
Shade City: The Dead Side Blues by Domino Finn
For Dante Butcher, Los Angeles ghost hunting isn't a business, it's a pastime. Going to clubs, knocking back a few drinks, even taking the occasional punch are all in a night's work. But cool confidence doesn't prepare Dante for what begins in a piss-soaked bathroom. The Dead Side opens up a whole new world to him, and for the first time, it's the ghosts that are hunting Dante. Targeted Age Group:: 18+ What Inspired You to Write Your Book? The old architecture of Los Angeles and how the … [Read more...]
The Heart Teaches Best by M.J. Schiller
He’s the cop. Cooper Sullivan is the cop in charge of investigating a murder outside of a Los Angeles night club. The famous romance author, Sydney Essex, has been found strangled in the parking lot. When the young officer returns to the scene of the crime the night after the murder, he gets involved in a fight in order to protect a woman, who he realizes afterward, is the victim’s sister. Soon he finds himself torn by his attraction to the irresistible blond teacher, and his need to maintain a … [Read more...]
Abandon All Hope by M.J. Schiller @mjschiller
It was one of those mornings for newspaper-writer/photographer Hope Creswell. The alarm clock didn’t go off and she cut her finger on broken glass. Not one to let such things get her down, Hope headed into her assignment meeting with excitement, only to leave it stunned. Her new assignment is to trail the sensational rock-star, Chase Hatton, for an article. Chase Hatton! No one knows the power that name holds for her. No one knows of the childhood friendship that blossomed into romance, only … [Read more...]
City of Angeles by Marlayna Glynn Brown
Following the wildly popular award-winning Overlay: A Tale Of One Girl's Life In 1970s Las Vegas, the author continues her remarkable journey in City of Angeles, revealing the underside of a life lived in 1980s Los Angeles. This searing, often bizarre tale of Marlayna's teens and twenties reveals the author's flight from Las Vegas to the formidable world of self re-invention among the angels and demons populating 1980s Los Angeles. The author unflinchingly begets a self from the unlikeliest … [Read more...]
Nowhere to Run by Nina D’Angelo @janinedangelo
A dominatrix is murdered; her body displayed in a show of dominance. An actress is found dead beneath the Hollywood sign. Stephanie Carovella left her career, her friends and her home town of Los Angeles, but she couldn't outrun the demons on her past. When she is lured back by the death of her best friend she enters a world where no one's safe. As her deepest and darkest secrets are revealed, Stephanie must find out who she can trust. Will it be Jesse Carlisle? Her ex-lover and the man … [Read more...]
Meanwhile, Back at Cafe Du Monde…Life Stories About Food by Peggy Sweeney-McDonald
