Titles starting with L from Paperback Junction

When Stone Barrington's erstwhile lover, Arrington Calder, phones him to say that her husband has been murdered and she's been accused of the crime, Stone immediately goes to Los Angeles to find the real killer and exonerate Arrington. Arrington's husband, Vance, was a movie star, and the couple's glamorous Hollywood milieu gives Stone ample opportunity to indulge his playboy tendencies while he seeks the murderer.

Rosa Fiore is middle-aged, repressed, and lonely. Her only consolation is food: she is a dedicated, passionate, and gifted cook. Then she meets a chef who is researching the Sicilian cuisine of which Rosa is a master. After a brief, wild, affair he disappears, and Rosa must find a way to carry on.

Rosemary Sullivan explores her own love story and those of others, using her personal reminiscences as well as literature and film, in an attempt to explain just what it is that women are seeking from a love affair, and why it so often goes wrong.

Romance writers Julia Quinn, Karen Hawkins, Suzanne Enoch, and Mia Ryan reunite for this follow-up to Regency anthology THE FURTHER OBSERVATIONS OF LADY WHISTLEDOWN. Each story concerns one of four couples, each of which is searching either to engender or rekindle romance, and all of whom attend Lady Neely's dinner party, during which the hostess's ruby bracelet is stolen. The stories are united by that party, as well as reports from the society column of Quinn's character, the gossipy Lady Whistledown.