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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2012
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Hollywood Home Front

1 - All the Gin Joints (Jul-2021)
2 - Thank Your Lucky Stars (Jun-2022)
3 - You Must Remember This (Apr-2023)

Hollywood's Garden of Allah

1 - The Garden on Sunset (Jan-2012)
2 - The Trouble with Scarlett (Oct-2012)
3 - Citizen Hollywood (Jan-2014)
4 - Searchlights and Shadows (Jan-2015)
5 - Reds in the Beds (Jan-2016)
6 - Twisted Boulevard (Nov-2016)
7 - Tinseltown Confidential (Jun-2017)
8 - City of Myths (Feb-2018)
9 - Closing Credits (Oct-2018)

Book List in Order: 14 titles



  • Have you ever wanted to climb into a time machine and visit Hollywood during its heyday?

    Right before talking pictures slug Tinsel Town in the jaw, a luminous silent screen star converts her private estate into the Garden of Allah Hotel. The l...



  • Have you ever wanted to climb into a time machine and visit Hollywood during its heyday?


    Summer, 1936: "Gone with the Wind," Margaret Mitchell's first novel, takes the world by storm. Everyone in Hollywood knows Civil War pictures don't m...



  • Hollywood, 1939: When Tinseltown begins to woo wunderkind Orson Welles, he stashes himself at the Chateau Marmont until he's ready to make his splashy entrance. But gossip columnist Kathryn Massey knows he's there. Kathryn has been on the outs with H...



  • At the dawn of 1942, the dark days of Pearl Harbor still loom over Los Angeles. America is now at war, and posters warn home-front Hollywoodites that loose lips sink ships.Wartime propaganda is the name of the game, and the studios are expected to co...



  • Hollywood history is more than just colorful. It's dripping with red. As World War II ends, a new boogieman emerges: the Red Menace. When a scandal accuses Tinseltown of being riddled with Communists, MGM writing department head Marcus Adler needs to...



  • When the Red Scare ends, paranoia lingers. Can Tinseltown recover to take on television? After an exile from MGM, ousted screenwriter Marcus Adler is looking for his way back into the biz. When he hatches a plan to start over with a disgraced movie ...



  • Have you ever wanted to climb into a time machine and visit Hollywood during its heyday?

    As America embraces the 1950s, that brash upstart called television is poaching Hollywood's turf, inch by inch. If the studios don't do something drastic,...



  • When you live in a city built on shifting sands of myth, it can be hard to know which way is up. Kathryn Massey spends her days spreading rumors and keeping secrets. Losing herself one headline at a time has left Kathryn's personal identity...



  • Sometimes the end is only the beginning.Kathryn Massey thought a long-forgotten secret was dead and buried—just like the 1950s are about to be—but when a mysterious list circulating Screenland ignites salacious rumors about the gossip col...






  • Hollywood, 1920Alla Nazimova has reached the pinnacle of success. She is the highest-paid actress in town, with a luxurious estate, the respect of her peers, adoration of her fans, and a series of lovers that has included the first wife of her prot&e...



  • Lose yourself in the Golden Age of Hollywood—and discover the story of the man who helped create it. Hollywood in the 1920s: the motion picture industry is booming, and Irving Thalberg knows it takes more than guts and gumption to create s...



  • Luke Valenti has never fit into his swaggering family of overbearing loudmouths. Even worse, the world is at war again and Uncle Sam has stamped his draft notice 4-F - the ultimate rejection - because of a rare eye condition that has left Luke unable...



  • After waving her sweetheart, Luke, off to war, Nell Davenport encounters an unexpected entanglement that will change Hollywood forever. With combat raging across Europe and the Pacific, jobs of all kinds are now open to women on the home front. ...



  • When the curtain rises on an entirely new life, some will stumble and some will soar. With the end of World War II finally in sight, Ensign Luke Valenti heads home to Los Angeles, eager to be reunited with the girl he left behind. As Luke naviga...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Martin Turnbull has published 14 books.

Martin Turnbull does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, You Must Remember This, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Martin Turnbull, The Garden on Sunset, was published in January 2012.

Yes. Martin Turnbull has 2 series.