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Twenty year veteran Detective Lt. Mike Stone is partnered with young, college educated Inspector Dan Robbins who has a lot to learn about being a police detective on the Streets of San Francisco.

"Detective Jimmy Spracklin is already being hounded by Internal Affairs officers when the headless body of a hippie heiress is found in Golden Gate Park. Now he must solve the high-profile murder while fighting off the IA probe, which is targeting not only Spracklin but also his daughter Marie. One misstep could result in Marie facing a murder charge. HITMAN ON HAIGHT STREET follows Spracklin as he shields his daughter from the SFPD and searches Haight-Ashbury...

Harvey Milk is 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, the first openly-gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, are shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blames his former colleagues for denying...

A pair of British female codebreakers formerly at Bletchley Park help American cryptographers solve murders overlooked by the police in San Francisco.

Set in the ruthless world of San Francisco in the late 1800s, rival Chinatown crime families are pitted against each other, against the police, and against an overtly racist white working class.

"Kilteegan Bridge, Co Cork, Ireland. 1975 Lena Kogan is thrilled when her son Emmet invites her to the opening of his first building in San Francisco. It's awkward that she will be staying with Emmet's father Malachy Berger, but he's in a serious relationship now, and anyway, he knows how Lena feels about Eli, so surely they can just be friends. Her sister Emily, is less adventurous. She's happy to stay at home with her family and a thriving business,...

The story of the people who have chosen to end their lives at the Golden Gate Bridge.

The Strawberry Statement is both about and from the era of protests that swept campuses in the 1960s and 70s. A university athlete is drawn to the excitement of a demonstration, to a girl, and ultimately, to the cause.

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...

The dynamic relationship between the longtime cop-turned-homicide detective and his whip-smart protǧ ťakes a serious turn as they pursue an ever-widening circle of devious prison-gang kingpins, murderous land developers, female vigilantes and narcs gone bad. But whether it's calming turf wars or chasing leads, they're committed to keeping the Golden Gate city a safer place for all.