"Food lore, a good puzzle, an exciting climax and cats with their therapeutic purring all add to the fun" as a PI goes undercover as a plus-size model (Publishers Weekly).

In a world where stick-thin women adorn fashion magazines and silver screens, plus-sized private eye Savannah Reid is grateful for the wild success—and fabulous fashion tips—of full-figured model Cait Connor. When Cait is found dead...

"Savannah is shaken to the core when coroner Dr. Jennifer Liu appears on her doorstep late one night with a disturbing confession. In a potentially career-ruining move, a remorseful Dr. Liu admits to fudging an autopsy report to keep her friend Brianne's suicide a secret--fulfilling a final promise made before the terminally ill woman administered a lethal drug cocktail. But after Dr. Liu finds the same unique mixture in a second body, she fears the...

"PI Savannah Reid has delved into the ugly side of SoCal's celebrity culture more than once. But the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency may have bitten off more than they can chew when a Hollywood legend makes a deadly comeback... It will be a cold day in San Carmelita before Savannah skips over a high-profile homicide case, especially one attached to a tasty reward. But when 90-year-old former silver screen siren Lucinda Faraday is murdered inside...

A blistering reissue from the Edgar Award-winning author of Flight! Investigative reporter/amateur sleuth Irene Kelly risks life and limb to solve the brutal slaying of a friend -- a crime that is somehow connected to a thirty-five-year old murder and a current political cover-up.

Savannah Reid helps out her friend Detective Sergeant Dirk Coulter by investigating a shady weight loss therapist who tricked his patients into losing their money instead of their weight, and who supposedly killed his wife.

A California epic following several native, diverse Californians grasping for air in a world that continues to marginalize them. Johnny Frías has California in his blood. A descendant of the state's Indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California's forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year,...

"This book will make you laugh and cry in public." —Larry Doyle, author of I Love You, Beth Cooper

Jessica Anya Blau's passionate and poignant debut novel of one girl's coming of age in 1970s southern California, replete with stoners, hippies, surfers, bitchy girlfriends, first love, first heartbreak, and OPI shorts

Jamie Green will remember "the summer of naked swim parties"

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When her long marriage suddenly ends in divorce, history teacher April Raines returns to Crown Island, determined to start over. Her two grown daughters join her in a cottage - and the sibling rivalry has never been stronger. Soon, April unearths long-buried island secrets at the historical society. Worse, she is unexpectedly attracted to Ryan Kingston, the mysterious, enigmatic new owner of the Majestic Hotel, a vintage beachfront resort. Can they...

Ramona (1884) is a novel by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by her activism for the rights of Native Americans, Ramona is a story of racial discrimination, survival, and history set in California in the aftermath of the Mexican American War. Immensely popular upon publication, Ramona earned favorable comparisons to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and remains an influential sentimental novel to this day. Orphaned after the death of her foster...

A year after their break-up when tragedy draws stepsiblings Eden Munro and Tyler Bruce together again, Eden contemplates this one last chance at love.