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Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Nick Curran is a tough but vulnerable detective. Catherine Tramell is a cold, calculating, and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. Catherine becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered. Obsessed with cracking the case, Nick descends into San Francisco's forbidden underground.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Rizwan, an Indian man with a unique way of looking at the world, moves to San Francisco and meets a vivacious single mother named Mandira. They form a special bond and fall in love against all odds, but fate and tragedy conspire to tear them apart. That's when Rizwan embarks on a remarkable journey across America to win back the love of his life"--Container.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When filmy spores fall from space and take root in San Francisco, the city is beautifully transformed by spectacular and exotic flowers. But these lovely extraterrestrial blossoms have gruesome plans for their earthly admirers. These blossoms are going to slowly clone human bodies and then dispose of the originals.
4) Milk
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Harvey Milk, a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, becomes a gay rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he is elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. His election makes him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Four mothers. Four daughters. Eight stories. The Joy Luck Club is four women in San Francisco who have played mah jong together on a weekly basis for forty some years. One of them, Suyuan, has died, and her daughter June is preparing to go to China. Auntie Lindo with daughter Waverly, Auntie Ying Ying with daughter Lena, and Auntie An Mei with daughter Rose are at the going away party. Born in China, the Joy Luck Club members came to America as young...
9) Vertigo
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, San Francisco stood as a proud and flourishing symbol of America's recent conquest of the once-wild West. But on April 19, 1906, the city would experience an awesome reminder of the uncontrollable forces lying dormant just beneath the splendors of its cosmopolitan surface. Thirty times more powerful than the temblor that decimated northern California in 1989, this earthquake measured a ground-wrenching 8.3 on the Richter scale,...
11) Sudden impact
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Sensitive to outcries of police brutality, San Francisco Detective Harry Callahan bosses send him on an out-of-town assignment until events cool down. But wherever Harry goes, things just get hotter. This time, he is tracking a traumatized rape victim who coldly guns down her bygone attackers-- and as secrets come to light, starts striking an empathetic chord in the pursuing lawman.
12) Magnum force
Language
English
Description
Detective Harry Callahan is pitted against an unexpected lawbreaker: one who carries a badge. Sharpshooting rookie motorcycle cops have turned vigilante, rubbing out crooks the courts can't touch. Their real enemy is the system. Unfortunately for them, the system is what Harry is sworn to protect.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Monk has more trouble than ever after Dr. Kroger unexpectedly dies. He decides to buy a house. Unfortunately, some creepy people want to get their greedy hands on whatever is hidden in that house, even if they have to destroy the house to do it. He has to deal with a murdered homeless man; miraculous fountains; lottery murders; a stolen bike at a biotech lab; submarine 'suicides;' exploding grills; protecting a boxer; the impossible murder of Monk's...
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Nash Bridges is a charming, street-smart inspector for San Francisco's elite Special Investigations Unit. Nash often goes undercover to track down the city's most vile criminals, from drug dealers and smugglers to the Russian mob. Nash's loyal partner, Joe Dominguez is a retired cop who's as obsessed with solving crimes as he is with getting rich quick, a weakness that always seems to get the two into hot water.
16) Monk: Season six
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Brilliant but phobia-laden detective Adrian Monk never lets his obsessive-compulsive disorder stop him from solving a crime in the most ingenious way imaginable.
17) Kuffs
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A slacker joins the police force to hunt down his brother's killer. In 1851, San Francisco could not afford enough policemen to protect its population. So the city was divided into districts which were sold to private citizens. Merchants who wanted to, paid these men for police protection. Today, the men and women who own these districts are called Patrol Specials.
19) Zodiac
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. The four men most affected by the killer are San Francisco PD Homicide detectives David Toschi and William Armstrong, and the San Francisco Chronicle reporters Paul Avery and Robert Graysmith.
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