Lee Goldberg is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than seventy novels. His latest novel is Murder by Design, and he recently talked about it with Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog.
Bestselling writer Meg Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. She was a Clayton B. Ofstad endowed distinguished writer-in-residence at Truman State University, as well as a…
Rasheed Newson is the author of the national bestseller My Government Means to Kill Me, which was selected as a Lambda Literary finalist for Gay Fiction and was named one of the “100 Notable Books of…
Tony Lee Moral is a British filmmaker and author specializing in film history, particularly the work of Alfred Hitchcock. His latest book is A Century of Hitchcock.
Priya Parmar is the author of the novels Exit the Actress and Vanessa and Her Sister. Her latest novel is The Original, and she recently talked about it with Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog.
Vincent Yu is a sales manager at W.W. Norton/Liveright and the winner of the 2021 Ashley Bourne Prize for fiction from Ploughshares. His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly…
Leah Weiss is an acclaimed southern writer living in Virginia. Her debut novel If the Creek Don't Rise was released in 2017 and selected as Library Reads, Indie Next, and SIBA Okra Pick. It was…
Meg Shaffer is the USA Today bestselling author of The Lost Story and The Wishing Game, which was a Book of the Month finalist for Book of the Year as well as a Reader's Digest and Washington Post…
James Sugre is a vampire. He has lived for centuries, but has made some questionable choices. Bad choices, when it comes to investments. Now, he is broke. He has no money and is deep in debt. He can’t even afford his own reflection (they are available for a fee from Vampire Nation, an international conglomerate that both governs and provides for the world’s vampire population).
Wishes. We all make them, either silently to ourselves or possibly as a breathless whisper as we drop a coin in a fountain. The reason behind them can range from whimsical to deadly serious. And, in the "real world," they are, to quote Douglas Adams, "mostly harmless." In the world of fiction, however, wishes are entirely different.
The Ending Writes Itself is a marvelous read. Clarke will keep readers guessing and reevaluating as information is revealed and the body count rises, right up to the very last page.
La funeraria Evans existe prácticamente desde que se fundó el pueblo del sureste de Texas donde se ubica. Es un negocio familiar que se ha transmitido de generación en generación entre las mujeres Evans. Está Ducy, la matriarca actual de la familia, hija de Pie, quien desapareció misteriosamente hace dieciocho años...
En 2020, V.E. Schwab presentó a los lectores a Addie LaRue, una joven que hace un pacto fáustico para evitar un matrimonio no deseado a principios del siglo XVIII en Francia. En La vida invisible de Addie LaRue, Schwab sigue a Addie a través de los siglos mientras ella, gracias a su astucia y fuerza de voluntad, moldea...
Cuando Ebony "Ebby" Freeman tenía diez años, fue la única testigo de un robo fallido en su casa que resultó en la muerte a tiros de su hermano Baz, de quince años, y la destrucción de una valiosa reliquia familiar. El hecho de que Ebby sea hija de una prominente familia afroamericana...
La vida de Dália cambió la mañana en que la criada encontró la nota mecanografiada que decía: «CONTRATAR A UN NUEVO GUARDIÁN DE LAS LLAVES; URGENTE; ANTES DEL AMANECER». Todos en la Casa Caprichosa sabían lo que significaba la nota y quién la había escrito. Su autora era la Señora de la Casa Caprichosa, Lady Anatema, una gigantesca criatura mitad araña, mitad humana...
En Londres, en 1924, Lao She, un joven académico tímido, es convocado a la casa del matemático Bertrand Russell. Al llegar, Russell le explica que un amigo y colega, el juez Dee Ren Jie, ha sido arrestado por error junto con un grupo de agitadores chinos. Russell teme que si se descubre la identidad de Dee...
