San Francisco

When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht....

Back in the 1800s, North Beach was, indeed, actually a beach. Today, it is a neighborhood with a most colorful past....

A PRIVATE EYE'S LOVER ASKS HIM TO FIND OUT WHO KILLED HER EX-HUSBAND! Alton Rhode travels to San Francisco to investigate an alleged suicide and ...

This essay on how the California gold rush really did change the face of America is for anyone whose feet get itchy just thinking of what those days must have been like....

As San Francisco's Chinatown prepares for the Lunar New Year festivities in the fogbound month of February, astrologer Julia Bonatti finds herself with three new clients, all in desperate straits who don't seem to heed her advice....

A complicated, shadowy man in disgrace, Dante Mancuso leads a double life....

Economist Neil Lee draws on case studies of Taiwan, Sweden, Austria, and Switzerland to set out how innovation can be successfully balanced toward equity....

A body is found just blocks from attorney Sarah Woolson’s peaceful Rincon Hill home....

San Francisco has countless landmarks and tourist spots, but few are as associated with the city as the Golden Gate Bridge, one of the modern world's engineering marvels....

Death, destruction, love and greed against the background of a city in flames in the old west As San Francisco burns, Josh Bonner embarks on a ...

Jonas Watcher is a private investigator from San Francisco who has been called upon to investigate a dead man in New Orleans....

The tech boom of our time is changing San Francisco at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been transformed by Silicon Valley....

PI Ray Infantino searches for a missing girl in San Francisco, the city he abandoned years ago after his fiancé was killed. Thrust into his old city haunts, Ray finds that Tania may not be lost at all.

French ex-pat Tristan Mourault is the wealthy, urbane heir to a world-renowned collection of art - and an insatiable voyeur enamored with Karen Miller, a 15-year-old from a working-class family in San Francisco...

South Carolina secedes from the Union in 1861, but the sleepy city of San Francisco cares more about its war on rats. Bummer, a stray dog, has earned fame for his many rat kills. When one night he jumps in to save another stray (Lazarus) from the attack of a vicious dog, the new pair catch the attention of two rival reporters....

Working at a Suicide Prevention Center in San Francisco, Lily Goodwill thinks she's heard it all - then she gets a call from a man about to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge....