Quentin Tarantino’s novelization of his Academy Award winning  Hollywood tribute set during chaotic Los Angeles’s in the late 1960’s.

Rick Dalton once he had his own TV series, but now Rick’s a washed-up has been drowning his sorrows . Cliff Booth is Rick's stunt double and tries his best to keep Rick afloat. Rick is a neighbor to Sharon Tate. Wanna be music star, Charles Manson and his family come lurking. Can Rick and Cliff somehow  redeem themselves?

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Dr. Hannibal Lector returns in Thomas Harris’s sequel to his novel Red Dragon. A disturbing and exciting examination of a serial killer.

FBI trainee Clarice Starling tries to interview Hannibal Lecter, a cannibalistic psychiatrist whose brilliant insights into the criminally insane might prove helpful in her investigation of Buffalo Bill; a demented serial killer who skins young women alive. Hannibal demands Starling reveal her deepest fears in a Quid pro Quo arrangement that eventually produces results.

“No Country for Old Men” is Cormac McCarthy’s novel of a South Texas drug deal gone bad and was adapted to a film by the same name which won four Academy Awards including “Best Picture.”

A man hunting for Antelope in the vicinity of the Mexico- United States border comes across a drug deal gone bad with a stash of money. When the hunter absconds with the money he is hunted by assassins looking to recover the money, including the sadistic, Anton Chigurh. Sheriff Ed Bell attempts to protect the hunter and his family from the assassins but is ultimately over matched. Chigurh recovers the money after the hunter is killed and murders the hunter's wife as he promised if the hunter did not voluntarily return the money.

The 1965 novel by John Ball about about murder and racial prejudice in a small southern town which launched a film adaption that won Academy Awards for “Best Picture” and “Best Actor” in 1967.

Virgil Tibbs is a homicide detective visiting family in a small southern town when he is accused of murdering the guest maestro of an upcoming music festival. Virgil convinces Bill Gillespie, the town sheriff of his innocence but is reluctantly convinced to stay and assist in the investigation by his police superiors. Tibbs earns the respect of Sheriff Gillespie and overcomes the racial prejudice from the townspeople as they solve the crime together.

The third book in James Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet; “L.A. Confidential” follows three LAPD officers during the crime-ridden 1950’s.

A massacre at the Nite Owl Coffee shop sparks an investigation by three flawed LAPD officers; Exley, Vincennes and White who must settle their differences to survive in a brutal world of corruption, drug trafficking and look-alike celebrity prostitution. Ellroy's rat-a-tat prose and propensity for fast action, combined with realistic cop-dialog make L.A. Confidential a fascinating read.