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The celebration of Mexican cooking that food lovers have been waiting for.Richly photographed and authentically local, L.A. Mexicano showcases L.A.'s famously rich and complex Mexican-food culture, including recipes, profiles of chefs, bakers, restaurateurs, and vendors, and neighborhood guides. Part cookbook, part food journalism, and part love song to Los Angeles, it's the definitive resource for home cooks nationwide, hungry Angelenos, and ...

Curmudgeonly Japanese American gardener and unwitting detective Mas Arai is back in this fifth in the Edgar Award-winning series. Naomi Hirahara has created a memorable protagonist unlike any other: a Hiroshima survivor, Los Angeles gardener, widower, gambler, grandfather, and solver of crimes. In Strawberry Yellow, he returns to the strawberry farms of his youth and encounters family intrigue, danger, and murder.The series' most compelling an...

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A witty, timely and richly entertaining tale of a modern mother in transition, from the author of The Sweeney Sisters Helen Fairchild is leading a privileged Pasadena existence: married to a pillar of the community, raising a water polo-playing son destined for the most select high school, volunteering her time on the most fashionable committees. It only bothers Helen a tiny bit that she has never quite fit in ...

The Los Angeles Times-bestselling author of Helen of Pasadena offers a smart, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about new love, new life, and Shakespeare.A charmingly funny and effortless read....wonderfully developed cast of characters-- Library Journal (STARRED REVIEW)Elizabeth Lancaster, an English professor at Pasadena City College, finds her perfectly dull but perfectly orchestrated life upended one summer by three men: her movie-star ex-hus...

Andy Weinberger has done something extraordinary with his first novel: he's written a truly great detective novel that is fresh and original, but already feels like it's a classic. In the tradition of Walter Mosley, Raymond Chandler, and Sue Grafton, semi-retired private eye Amos Parisman roams LA's seedy and not-so-seedy neighborhoods in pursuit of justice. I don't want another Amos Parisman novel--I want a dozen more!" -Amy StewartWhen a con...

A modern, illustrated guide on how to resist turning into an old person, even as we age. Because getting older is a privilege, being old is optional.

The fourth in a strong cozy mystery series (with YA/millennial potential) that will have solid promotion from both the author and the publisherFirst and second in the series garnered a lot of attention at ALA17, Bouchercon 2016, SIBA, and MIBA, and has proven to be successfulThe humorous themes will attract readership of all ages, borderline YA crossover appealThe frequent library scenes and setting will appeal to librarians and buyers across ...

Riley investigates her family's past and uncovers buried secrets that demand a seemingly impossible choice.

As Riley Ellison covers a shocking double murder in her hometown, she's confronted with things that are not what they seem to be. . . and people who aren't, either.

Celebrated painter Kenton Nelson explores the idealistic California of his childhood dreams in this collection of works involving water.

A casual anthology of people, culture, humor, and pictures.

As Riley covers a shocking double murder in her hometown, she's confronted with things that are not what they seem to be-and people who aren't either.

The casual anthology L.A. has been waiting for, rich with insight, humor, personality, history, modernity, and great writers old and new.

LA's toughest bodyguard/bouncer, Crush, races to save his kidnapped honorary brother, the estranged son of an uber-wealthy developer.

HR manager/PI Chuck Restic must find a missing consultant wanted for murder to save his own corporate-and literal-neck.

Susan Sontag on teen life Eve Babitz on bodysurfing Arna Bontemps on the shimmy Victoria Dailey on bookshops and backrooms Victor and Mary Lau Valle on pulque Vin Scully on Koufax Hector Tobar on inner landscapes Clancy Sigal on gangster chic Paul Beatty on PCH partying Also: Route Riffs. One-liners. Photo Essays: L.A. Obscura by Robert Landau

When a beloved cardiologist is found murdered in his Tuttle Corner home, newly minted reporter Riley Ellison is assigned not only to write his obituary, but to cover the murder investigation as well. Riley's desperation to prove herself causes her to blur the line between reporter and investigator... and places her squarely in the killer's path.

In this compelling mystery, Mas Arai is back to save a wedding from a theft that threatens to destroy it.

Maggie Fiori, magazine editor and amateur sleuth, gets entangled in a high-profile murder among San Francisco's elite.

This hilarious and poignant debut novel about a mommy blogger and her unwillingly famous daughter explores privacy, fame, and family.