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Marlowe is constantly on the move with a case involving a war-scarred drunk and his nymphomaniac wife. A psychotic gangster is on his trail; he is in trouble with the cops; and an unequaled number of corpses turn up.

Detective Philip Marlowe deals with the Los Angeles gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women.

Unemployed African-American veteran Easy Rawlins accepts an offer of some detective work in 1948 from white gangster Dewitt Albright, who wants Easy to scour the jazz joints of Los Angeles in an effort to locate blonde femme fatale Daphne Monet.

Los Angeles police officer Jack McGarvey, badly wounded in a shoot-out, decides to move his family to a Montana ranch that has been willed to him by the father of his former partner, only to have his son Toby become the target of the Givers, creatures from another dimension who want control of the child for their own evil purposes.

Chronicles the experiences of African-American political prisoner Elmer Gerard "Geronimo" Pratt.

L.A. Crip gang member Kody Scott recounts his life from the time he joined at eleven years old to being in solitary confinement at San Quentin.

Forensic pathologist Joanna Blalock teams up with detective Jake Sinclair in an attempt to learn the truth about the apparent suicide of Dr. Karen Crandell, a researcher who was on the brink of an important discovery about the workings of the human brain.

Private eye Jack Liffey is hired by an old college classmate to track down his rebellious runaway daughter, and in the course of his investigation, he finds himself involved with a cell of Arab Islamic terrorists.

Weaves together the stories of three individuals involved in the music business, Jazmine, who is looking for an escape from her overly protective father; Xavier, a local criminal who is pursuing a career as a rapper and trying establish a relationship with Jazime; and Jazime's best friend Dakota, who wants them both to succeed.