A stunning literary thriller in which an investigative journalist in modern Los Angeles attempts to solve the Golden Age murder of a Hollywood starlet. 1940s Hollywood was an era of decadence and director Theodore Langley was its king. Paired with Eleanor Hayes as his lead actress, Theo ruled the Golden Age of Hollywood. That ended when Eleanor’s mangled body was discovered in Theo’s rose garden and he was charged with her murder. The case was thrown out before it went to trial and Theo fled L.A., leaving his crawling estate, Windhall, to fall into ruin. He hasn’t been seen since. Decades later, investigative journalist Max Hailey, raised by his gran on stories of old Hollywood, is sure that if he could meet Theo, he could prove once and for all that the famed director killed his leading lady. When a copycat murder takes place near Windhall, the long reclusive Theo returns to L.A., and it seems Hailey finally has his chance. When Hailey gets his hands on Theo’s long-missing journals, he reads about Eleanor’s stalkers and her role in Theo’s final film, The Last Train to Avalon, a film so controversial it was never released to the public. In the months leading up to her death, something had left her so terrified she stopped coming to work. The more Hailey learns about Avalon, the more convinced he becomes that the film could tell him who killed Eleanor and why she had to die. But the implications of Avalon reach far beyond Eleanor’s murder, and Hailey must race to piece together the murders of the past and present before it’s too late.

Beatrice would be quite pleased to spend the rest of her days in bed, buried in covers that block out the world, thank you very much. Ever since her husband died, and with her only child a preoccupied mother and wife, she doesn't have a reason to get out of bed any more. That all changes when her flighty sister, Jenette, and her ornery dog show up on her porch. Bea has no choice but to let her in, and this one poor decision, demanded by etiquette, turns her life cuckoo. The sisters discover Beatrice's mild-mannered husband left her a house in Florida. Jenette is convinced he had a woman on the side. Beatrice is just as convinced he did not. In a mere twenty-four hours of her sister's arrival, Bea is on the road to Florida with only a suitcase of clean underwear and her featherbrained sister for company. Somewhere between the road trip, Pedro's Pleasures, the Hawk Avenue bachelors, and a fabulous makeover, Beatrice stopped dragging her heels and began having fun. The migration south turned out to be exactly the thing she needed to rediscover her youth and take her perch as a chick on Nightingale Lane.

John Doggett (d.1673) immigrated in 1630 from England to Watertown, Massachusetts, married twice, and died in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Descendants lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and elsewhere in Canada. Includes ancestors in England to the 1200s.

The body of Edward Rewold is discovered hanged in an abandoned warehouse and has a puzzling cryptic message—Lukas Boston's name is painted on his feet. It begins a bizarre investigation involving the stolen contents of a safe, a seaside markets populated by insane stall owners, and an evil corporation that decides on sending Lukas to the bottom of the harbour as the best solution to stop him poking his nose into its illegal business. For a change, someone is merely trying to drown Lukas, while an old enemy only wants to beat him to death with a pool cue. Normally, bad people are only trying to shoot him, but good times like that don't last forever... Welcome to the world of Lukas Boston, a private investigator, where even eating fish and chips can be murder.

Mr. Lin Wen had been married for almost two years, but his husband had never touched her. She could only silently endure her husband's indifference, her mother-in-law's difficulties, and Little San's sudden entrance into the inner circle. On her wedding anniversary, her husband finally turned around to spend the night in a luxury hotel with her. But when she woke up, she was horrified to find that the one sleeping beside her wasn't her husband, but an extraordinarily handsome and evil stranger! Since then, her world had been turned upside down. That man forcefully threatened, "From today onwards, you are my, Mu Si Zhe's, lover. You must be here whenever you are called!" "Let me go, I'm a married woman!" "You have already left this young master's mark, don't even think of escaping from me!" ... ....

In a snowstorm, a Lin Clan member named Dong Lang was born. He happened to encounter a random opportunity. Wild beasts massacred the village, and both his parents died. Perhaps it was fated, but by chance, he stepped into an unknown world. Along the way, he had acquired the fetters, the friendship, everything ....