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When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 68,028 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 276,230 ratings
""Pico Mundo" (probably Victorville) "Maravilla County" (probably San Bernardino County) "
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Fearless Jones (Fearless Jones, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 3,329 ratings
"Watts "
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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
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4.18 avg rating — 4,491 ratings
"South Central Los Angeles "
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No Human Involved (Munch Mancini, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 344 ratings
" Los Angeles"
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Too Big to Miss (An Odelia Grey Mystery, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 1,971 ratings
"Newport Beach "
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Ghost a la Mode (A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 2,705 ratings
"Pasadena "
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Sit, Stay, Slay (Kendra Ballantyne, Pet-Sitter Mystery #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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Beaglemania (Pet Rescue Mystery, #1)
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3.42 avg rating — 604 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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Handbags and Homicide (Haley Randolph, #1)
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3.49 avg rating — 1,382 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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Charlie Sent Me
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2.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
"Hollywood"
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The Charlie Greene Mysteries: Murder at Moot Point / Death of the Office Witch / Murder in a Hot Flash, and Voices in the Wardrobe
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
"Hollywood"
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The Jasmine Trade (Eve Diamond Mystery, #1)
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3.59 avg rating — 475 ratings
"Los Angeles"
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Groucho Marx, Master Detective
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3.79 avg rating — 218 ratings
"Hollywood "
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Dating Dead Men (Wollie Shelley Mystery #1)
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3.44 avg rating — 2,155 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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This Pen for Hire (A Jaine Austen Mystery, #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 5,939 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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Goodnight, Irene (Irene Kelly #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 2,957 ratings
""Las Piernas" (probably Long Beach) "
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Sympathy for the Devil (Madeline Bean, #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 582 ratings
"Hollywood
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Fadeout (Dave Brandstetter, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 2,510 ratings
"Los Angeles"
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Summer of the Big Bachi (Mas Arai, #1)
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3.56 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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Strong Spirits (Daisy Gumm Majesty, #1)
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3.53 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
"Pasadena "
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Spying in High Heels (High Heels, #1)
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3.71 avg rating — 16,900 ratings
"Los Angeles"
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Scandal Sheet (Hollywood Headlines, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 3,262 ratings
"Los Angeles Hollywood "
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Star Struck Dead (Lauren Atwill, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings
"1940s Hollywood "
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Simple Justice (Benjamin Justice, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 389 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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Desperate Housedogs (Pampered Pets Mystery, #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 1,272 ratings
"Laguna Beach "
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Dating Can Be Murder (Samantha Shaw Mystery, #1)
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3.75 avg rating — 461 ratings
"Lake Elsinore "
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A Mind for Murder Omnibus: Who Do, Voodoo?, Bruja Brouhaha, and Hex on the Ex
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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| 29 |
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False Profits (Tucker Sinclair, #1)
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3.43 avg rating — 248 ratings
"Los Angeles"
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The Actress (Rita Farmer Mysteries, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 515 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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Telling Lies (A Maggie MacGowen Mystery #1)
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3.53 avg rating — 116 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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Child of Silence (Bo Bradley, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 1,098 ratings
"San Diego "
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Death Was the Other Woman
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3.67 avg rating — 208 ratings
"1930s Los Angeles "
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Tip on a Dead Crab
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3.69 avg rating — 36 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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Hooked on Murder (Crochet Mystery, #1)
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3.58 avg rating — 4,296 ratings
"Tarzana "
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Dead to Me
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3.71 avg rating — 903 ratings
"1940s Los Angeles"
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Roadhouse Blues (Mike Travis #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 123 ratings
"Los Angeles"
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Desert Autumn (Claire Gray Mystery, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings
"Palm Springs"
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Runner (Sam Dryden, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 9,467 ratings
"Southern California"
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The Shadow Hunter (Abby Sinclair and Tess McCallum, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 1,985 ratings
"Los Angeles"
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Bulletproof Mascara
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3.58 avg rating — 381 ratings
"Santa Clarita "
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The Dead Are Discreet
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3.35 avg rating — 46 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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Murder Unscripted
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3.41 avg rating — 34 ratings
"Hollywood "
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| 44 |
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The Reporter (Maxi Poole, #1)
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3.08 avg rating — 53 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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| 45 |
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Dishing Up Death (A Gourmet Pet Chef Mystery, #1)
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 32 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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| 46 |
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The Elvis and Marilyn Affair (Neil Gulliver & Stevie Marriner, #1)
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3.05 avg rating — 40 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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High Crimes on the Magical Plane
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3.81 avg rating — 37 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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| 48 |
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Poison Pen (Forensic Handwriting Mystery #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 1,154 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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| 49 |
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Sticky Fingers (Tess Camillo, #1)
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3.33 avg rating — 36 ratings
"San Diego "
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Die a Little
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3.66 avg rating — 2,894 ratings
"Pasadena "
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I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason (A Cece Caruso Mystery, #1)
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3.48 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
"Beverly HIlls "
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Death of a Postmodernist (Margo Simon, #1)
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3.11 avg rating — 35 ratings
"San Diego "
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What Came Before
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4.45 avg rating — 38 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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Die in Plain Sight (Rarities Unlimited, #3)
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3.96 avg rating — 4,972 ratings
"Pasadena "
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Fatal Shadows (The Adrien English Mysteries, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 12,350 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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| 56 |
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Blues in the Night (Molly Blume, #1)
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3.77 avg rating — 253 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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| 57 |
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Bite the Biscuit (Barkery & Biscuits Mystery, #1)
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3.38 avg rating — 753 ratings
""Knobcone Heights" fictional town in San Bernardino Mountains "
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As Dead As It Gets
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3.04 avg rating — 68 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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Unzipped (A Chrissy McMullen Mystery, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 2,446 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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Someone's Death (Nils-Frederick Blixen #1)
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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Final Cut
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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| 62 |
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Death in Little Tokyo (Ken Tanaka, #1)
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3.62 avg rating — 136 ratings
"Little Tokyo Los Angeles"
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| 63 |
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Shooting Elvis (Nina Zero, #1)
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3.46 avg rating — 269 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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| 64 |
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Delilah Doolittle and the Purloined Pooch (Pet Detective, #1)
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3.35 avg rating — 63 ratings
""Surf City" probably Huntington Beach "
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| 65 |
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Money Shot (Angel Dare #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 2,927 ratings
"Van Nuys "
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Fast Forward
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3.53 avg rating — 290 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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| 67 |
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Tight Shot: A Hollywood Mystery
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
"Hollywood "
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| 68 |
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Frames (Valentino, #1)
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3.48 avg rating — 400 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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| 69 |
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Looks to Die For (Lacy Fields, #1)
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3.24 avg rating — 433 ratings
"Beverly Hills"
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Set to Kill
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
"Beverly Hills "
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| 71 |
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The Weeping and the Laughter
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
"Beverly HIlls "
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| 72 |
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Crime on My Hands
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3.59 avg rating — 76 ratings
"Hollywood Southern California Desert"
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| 73 |
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Chasing the Dime (Harry Bosch Universe, #12)
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3.97 avg rating — 42,033 ratings
"Santa Monica "
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Sacrificial Lamb
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
"Santa Monica Hollywood "Gypsum" fictional town in the Mojave Desert "
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The Con Artist
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3.45 avg rating — 603 ratings
"San Diego "
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| 76 |
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Killer Material: A Mystery (Biff Kincaid #1)
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3.43 avg rating — 35 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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| 77 |
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Killer Mousse (A Della Cooks Mystery #1)
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3.77 avg rating — 884 ratings
"Santa Monica "
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| 78 |
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Dead Extra
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3.93 avg rating — 45 ratings
"1940s Los Angeles "
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| 79 |
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Colorado Boulevard
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3.81 avg rating — 63 ratings
"Pasadena "
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Three Bedrooms, Two Baths, One Very Dead Corpse
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2.90 avg rating — 252 ratings
"Palm Springs "
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| 81 |
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Nash, Rambler
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3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
"San Bernardino "
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| 82 |
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Was It a Rat I Saw
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3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
"Pasadena "
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| 83 |
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The Man with the Iron-On Badge
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4.01 avg rating — 2,588 ratings
"Los Angeles Camarillo "
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| 84 |
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Murder on the Mother Road
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
"Mojave Desert "
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| 85 |
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The Poet's Funeral
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3.07 avg rating — 28 ratings
"Santa Barbara Mojave Desert "
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| 86 |
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Cleanup on Aisle Six (Li Johnson Murder Mysteries #2)
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
""Shorewood" fictional city, possibly in Orange County "
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| 87 |
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Design for Dying (Lillian Frost & Edith Head, #1)
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3.63 avg rating — 1,250 ratings
"Hollywood "
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| 88 |
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Murder On The Glitter Box (Steve Allen Mystery #3)
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3.60 avg rating — 123 ratings
"Hollywood Los Angeles "
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| 89 |
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Cupcakes, Lies, and Dead Guys (Annie Graceland Mystery #1)
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3.53 avg rating — 702 ratings
"Los Angeles "
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| 90 |
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Hollywood Homicide (Detective by Day, #1)
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3.61 avg rating — 2,880 ratings
"Hollywood "
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| 91 |
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The Impersonator (Roaring Twenties Mystery, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 1,614 ratings
"1920s Hollywood "
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