"As Hazel Fine steps out of her crummy hotel room into the bright LA sunshine, she knows she's got one, and only one, chance. Her audition for the massive talent show, The Sing Along, could change her life forever. She has the skills, what she needs now is a bit of luck. Soon Hazel finds herself alongside fifteen other contestants who all have the same dream: superstardom. There's the beautiful Hollywood golden child, Bella. The bright, bubbly country...

"With Lon Cheney and Boris Karloff among its characters, this sweeping and stylish love letter to the golden age of horror cinema tells the wonderful, tragic story of Maddy Ulm. It takes readers through her rise from the complicated shadows of Berlin's first experiments with expressionist cinema to the glamorous deserts of Hollywood. For Maddy has a secret. A secret that has given her incredible insight into the soul of horror. A secret that has a...

"When Becca Harrington is rejected from every college on her list, she decides to move to L.A. with dreams of becoming a star, until reality sets in to often hilarious and sometimes heart-breaking results"-- When Becca Harrington is rejected from every college on her list, she decides to move to L.A. with dreams of becoming a star. After a few months reality sets in, and Becca and her friend Marisol start posting short videos online with the help...

"One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish émigrée named Viva is driving along the freeway when she's flagged down by a dazzling, disheveled woman in green chiffon. The woman is Bobby Sleeper, a fellow Eastern European and erstwhile art gallerist with a mysterious background and even more mysterious filmmaker husband. Within days the couple hire Viva as their assistant, then enlist her as an accomplice in an improbable scheme involving a long-lost...

Legendary science fiction author Fowler Faulkes may be dead, but his creation, the iconic Dr. Derringer, lives on in popular culture. Or, at least, the character would live on if not for Faulkes's predatory and greedy heir Hilary, who, during his time as the inflexible guardian of the estate, has created countless enemies in the relatively small community of writers of the genre. So when he is stabbed nearly to death in a room with only one door,...

When Fluffington, the most famous cat in Hollywood, goes missing during a movie shoot, the Clue Crew, who are cast as extras in the film, spring into action to track down the feline.

"This entry, with its high-quality stories from such genre masters as Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, outshines the typical all-original anthology." -- Publishers Weekly In Akashic Books's acclaimed series of original noir anthologies, each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. This collection of classic stories -- the sequel to the award-winning, bestselling Los Angeles...

Professional wedding cake decorator and amateur sleuth Piper Donavan is on cake creating assignment at a West Coast luxury spa for the wealthy and famous--where nip and tuck and murder are offered in equal measures.