A Study in Starlets, by Gini Koch

Sherlock Holmes and her partner Dr. John Watson have barely set up as consulting detectives in LA before Tinsel Town's finest come calling. Joey Jackson and Tony Antonelli are in trouble: their partner, Cliff Camden, has disappeared without a trace on the eve of filming for a new show. The LAPD don't care and Watson has his own reasons for wanting to stay out of it, but Holmes takes the case.

But she gets to work amidst neurotic actors, grumbling film crews and low-level sleaze that permeates LA, a fresh murder turns everything on its head...

The Case of the Tattooed Bride, by Jamie Wyman

Winter, and the Soggiorno Brothers' Traveling Wonder Show has pulled into its berth in Peru, Indiana. Sanford "Crash" Haus, proprietor and genius, and his friend, the retired soldier-turned-surgeon Jim "Dandy" Walker, are looking forward to a quiet few months. By happy coincidence, just as the Strong Man and the Tattooed Lady announce their betrothal, the Wonder Show's old manager Professor Sylvestri - a minister, no less - rolls into town with his ward in tow.

Preparations for the happy day begin, but violence and misfortune attend on them...

Half There/All There, by Glen Mehn

Glen Mehn's novella is a drug-fuelled descent into the experimental world of Warhol's Factory. Holmes and Watson are faced with a mystery unlike any other, set against the backdrop of social, cultural and racial issues that rocked society and brought about the fierce (and sometimes violent) changes at the end of the swinging sixties...