los angeles (calif.)

Looks at the unsolved "Black Dahlia" murder of Elizabeth Short in 1947, including a look at the victim, potential suspects, and the criminal investigation.

Camilla del Valle is the teen every girl in Mexico City envies, with a father who does voice-overs for American movies and a glamorous mother who acts in telenovela films and a life of luxury. Everything changes when her mother is cast in an American television show and they have to move to Los Angeles. There, Cammi meets with racism at her posh, private Polestar Academy, where the white students assume she is there on scholarship. Cammi plays along, trying to get back at them for their stereotypes, but soon she has to wonder if she isn't fooling herself instead.

"At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more complicated that it seemed"--Provided by publisher.

Jayd tries to juggle her own clients, friends, busy school schedule, and her new beau while Esmeralda's evil brood concoct a sinister plan to destroy Jayd and the rest of her powerful lineage.

"Derek Fallon discovers all the angst that comes with being twelve--he just wants to feel grown up, but life gets in the way with a series of mishaps that make him look like a baby"--Provided by publisher.

Reyna Grande chronicles her life as an undocumented immigrant, from her border crossing at age nine, discussing her difficult relationship with her father, and other complications with her family during childhood.

L.A.P.D. homicide detective Peter Decker, already upset that a rapist is prowling his oldest daughter's college campus, is tormented by a case much closer to home in which a teenage girl was murdered on prom night.

Two Bel Air lovers murdered in the most intimate of circumstances propel psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis on a twisted path towards the depraved evil found among the super rich.

LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware search for a psychotic killer who is terrorizing the city with no known motive or pattern and teaches Milo and Alex the true meaning of madness.

Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware enlists the help of detective Milo Sturgis to uncover the disappearance of an emotionally crippled woman in the old -money section of Los Angeles.