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Bruce Kimmel
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Bruce Kimmel's Directed by is a delightful read. Coming from his rich theatrical background, he takes the reader on a behind the scenes journey outlining…
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Just as Frank Sinatra had an additional and invaluable career as the great preservationist and evangelist of the American popular song (with particular focus on the Lost and Found), so…
She's back!
For her seventeenth birthday, crack high school journalist/sleuth Adriana Hofstetter is taken to the Magic Castle, a mansion of magic, where she, her BFF Billy, and her mom…
Bruce Kimmel has had a long and varied career as an actor, director, writer, and Grammy-nominated record producer. But whenever people have heard one of his songs, the invariable response…
What if Walt Disney wanted a timetravel ride for his recently opened Disneyland, a peek into a city of the future and what it might hold--a thrilling ride. What if…
Watch the book trailer for Benjamin Kritzer Meet nine-year-old Benjamin Kritzer. Growing up in 1950s Los Angeles, Benjamin believes that his parents are Martians, his brother is psychotic, and that…
Adriana Hofstetter is back! She has just turned sixteen. To celebrate that occasion, she is writing a story for her journalism class on the unsolved 1966 murder of a highly-thought-of-but-vicious…
Ten-year-old Benjamin Kritzer is back. Having survived his Martian parents (thus far), having survived a broken heart (when the nine-year-old love of his life, Susan Pomeroy, moved to Canada), and…
Jonathan Goldman has a problem. He’s just been ousted from the company he created. His former business partners have only one goal - to ruin his life and do him…
Advance praise for “Murder at The Grove” Fans of mysteries, especially West Coast-centric mysteries, rejoice! The irrepressible and irresistible teenage sleuth Adriana Hofstetter is back, with funny-snarky attitude, 40s wardrobe…
Bruce Kimmel has managed to eke out a career in one form of show business or another for over forty years. A successful Grammy-nominated record producer, Kimmel began his show…
Adriana Hofstetter is back and still marching to the beat of her own sixteen-year-old band. When Hollywood High School puts on a production of The Music Man, Adriana is there…
Here is the story of young Jeremiah Goldberg, a 10-year-old in the burg of Stillwater, California in 1880, a boomtown with mystery, murder, and intrigue at its core. For Jeremiah…
Just when you thought it was safe to enjoy Christmas Vacation, fifteen-year-old Adriana Hofstetter is back with another case to solve. She and her mother are volunteers at the Hollywood…
They say that trying out a new musical can be murder. It doesn’t help that the show has a terrible second act, that the author has writer’s block, that most…
Teenager Adriana Hofstetter is quite possibly one of a kind. She hates all things “now”-including MySpace, cell phones, and anything trendy-and she has no use for partying, getting wasted or…
Watch the book trailer for Benjamin Kritzer > Meet nine-year-old Benjamin Kritzer. Growing up in 1950s Los Angeles, Benjamin believes that his parents are Martians, his brother is psychotic, and…
Patrick Bronstein Presents. For over fifty years, Patrick Bronstein produced movies in virtually every genre, yet few remember those films. When author Paul Khanna contacts him to write a book…
Gee is the story of a headstrong, wilful, and most peculiar girl who navigates her way from the early years of the twentieth century through nine decades of living. Its…
Adriana Hofstetter, the sixteen-year-old intrepid journalism student, returns in a crackerjack new mystery, her sixth adventure, Murder at the Hollywood Division.
When a police detective is shot four times while…
Bruce, Kimmel
How To Write A Dirty Book and Other Stories is Bruce Kimmel’s first collection of short fiction. In these wonderful and evocative tales you’ll find the warmth, humor, and emotion…
It's been twenty years since we left Benjamin Kritzer having just graduated high school in Kritzer Time (which followed Benjamin Kritzer and Kritzerland). Now, Benjamin is back, picking up where…
Los Angeles. For Harry Stearns, former literary agent turned private detective and now happily retired, old habits die hard. He spends his days going to his office on the Sunset…
In Some Days Are Murder, Harry, former literary agent turned private investigator, comes out of retirement to solve the murder of a former client. Now, six months later, a larger-than-life…
