L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes & Bad Times
By: John Gilmore
3.83
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
This singular book follows a mad, tumultuous landscape without remorse or pity, the high and low li…
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1. Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier
By: Mark Frost
3.89
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
The crucial sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Secret History of Twin Peaks, this novel b… read more
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"A traveller learns more than a passenger."-Mark Frost, Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier
"When a dark age comes, hold the light inside."-Mark Frost, Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier
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"Pardon my French for a second, Chief, but what the fuck?"-Mark Frost, Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier
2. Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro, #2)
By: Dennis Lehane
4.17
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Master of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Bos… read more
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"But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that bec…"-Dennis Lehane, Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro, #2)
3. Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
By: James Andrew Miller , Tom Shales
3.77
Format: 52 pages,
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4. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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5. The Misbegotten Son
By: Jack Olsen
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
The bestselling author of Predator and Doc dissects the shattering life of a charming, ruthless, an… read more
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6. Answered Prayers - The Unfinished Novel
By: Truman Capote
4.31
Format: 517 pages, Paperback
Although Truman Capote's last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions… read more
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7. LAPD '53
By: James Ellroy , None
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
James Ellroy, the undisputed master of crime writing, has teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Mus… read more
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8. Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder
By: Piu Marie Eatwell
3.61
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Los Angeles, 1947. A housewife out for a walk with her baby notices a cloud of black flies buzzing … read more
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9. Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets
By: Gregg Olsen
4.33
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
On Christmas Eve in 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy corn field in Nebraska. Th… read more
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10. Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics
By: Naomi Hirahara , Raymond Chandler , Walter Mosley , Ross Macdonald , James Ellroy , Margaret Millar , Leigh Brackett , Paul Cain , Chester Himes , James M. Cain , Joseph Hansen , Kate Braverman , Jervey Tervalon , Denise Hamilton , Yxta Maya Murray , William Campbell Gault
4.00
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
From Hollywood starlets to downtown taxi dancers, and from Central Avenue speakeasies to clapboard … read more
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11. High Cotton: Selected Stories
By: Joe R. Lansdale
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of Joe R. Lansdale stories represents the best of the "Lansdale" genre--a strange m… read more
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12. Stormy Weather
By: Carl Hiaasen
4.83
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER "Hysterically funny...Hiaasen at his satirical best." - USA Today Two hone… read more
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13. A Strange and Bitter Fruit
By: Barry C. Davis
1.33
Format: 397 pages,
A chilly spring night in rural South Carolina at the tail end of Reconstruction, the murder of inno… read more
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14. The Day of the Locust
By: Nathanael West , Alfred Kazin
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Day of the Locustis a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream … read more
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15. Pop. 1280
By: Jim Thompson
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest cri… read more
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16. Cadillac Jukebox (Dave Robicheaux, #9)
By: James Lee Burke
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
No one was surprised when Aaron Crown was arrested for the decades-old murder of the most famous bl… read more
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17. Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels
By: Paul Pringle
4.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal … read more
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18. The Amish Wife
By: Gregg Olsen
3.49
Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition
The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Am… read more
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19. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
By: Don Winslow
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more
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20. Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
By: Michael Cohen
4.09
Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition
11 hours, 50 minutes This book almost didn’t see the light of day as government officials tried… read more
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21. The Untold Story (The Invisible Library, #8)
By: Genevieve Cogman
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
In this thrilling historical fantasy, time-traveling Librarian spy Irene will need to delve deep in… read more
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"Stories are like that. They’ll wait for you until you can come back to them."-Genevieve Cogman, The Untold Story (The Invisible Library, #8)
22. Small Mercies
By: Dennis Lehane
4.29
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —a… read more
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23. Irreparable: Three Lives. Two Deaths. One Story that Has to be Told.
By: Mark Gerardot
4.03
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Mark and Jennair Gerardot had been married nearly 25 years when Mark met someone who changed everyt… read more
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24. Hollywood: The Oral History
By: Jeanine Basinger
4.04
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more
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25. Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision
By: Charles Elton
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The “revelatory” ( The New Yorker ) first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided… read more
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26. Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon
By: Joel Selvin
4.27
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
The blazing rock opera of the greatest drummer of all-time, Jim Gordon, from the legendary Wrecking… read more
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27. Suicide Blonde: The Life of Gloria Grahame
By: Vincent Curcio
3.80
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
The life of Gloria Grahame offers a portrait of the Academy Award-winning actress who achieved enor… read more
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28. The Phillip Island Murder
By: Vikki Petraitis
3.89
Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition
The discovery of the body of Beth Barnard in her Phillip Island farmhouse in 1986, began a homicide… read more
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29. Boston Tabloid: The Killing of Robin Benedict
By: Don Stradley
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
"A thoughtful, compelling reexamination of an intriguing story of fatal obsession and its enduring … read more
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30. L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes & Bad Times
By: John Gilmore
3.83
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
This singular book follows a mad, tumultuous landscape without remorse or pity, the high and low li… read more
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31. History of Eastern Europe: A Captivating Guide to a Shortened History of Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Moldova, Belarus, and Romania (European Countries)
By: Captivating History
3.97
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
How much Eastern European history do you know?The story of Eastern Europe is one of successes and f… read more
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