In this sequel to the Edgar Awardâ€"nominated Tough Luck L.A., a Hollywood screenwriter searches for his kidnapped son in the dark underbelly of Los Angeles. Things are mostly looking up for Ben Crandel. The once down-on-his-luck screenwriter ...
A screenwriter stage dives into L.A.’s punk rock scene to find a missing reporter as Sinclair mixes “hard-edged realism . . . [and] humor” in a “fine” novel (Gerald Petievich, author of To Live and Die in L.A.). Four years ...
Edgar Award Finalist: Ben Crandel came to Hollywood to strike it big as a writer -- not become the prime suspect in a prostitute’s murder. L.A. seemed like a good idea at the time. Having published two novels, Ben Crandel left a sweet teachi...
Did you know that, in the Spring of 1940, the once famous author F. Scott Fitzgerald was recruited by an agent of the French Resistance to assassinate the premier of Vichy, France? Fitzgerald had hijacked the Jazz Age&nb...