Why Los Angeles is a Great Setting for Crime Fiction

Don Simkovich, MA
So Cal Live Work Play
5 min readJul 16, 2019

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Downtown Los Angeles along the 110 Freeway
Los Angeles: Beautiful and Ugly … Photo by Don Simkovich

In Los Angeles, you have the ultra-rich driving past the homeless living under bridges. Suburban communities perch against the foothills with winding canyons and stretches of freeway that cut through hillsides and pass along recreation areas.

Where rich bump up against desperate poor and urban clashes with rural, there are so many places that exist for the perfect crime.

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Don Simkovich, MA
So Cal Live Work Play

Don is co-author of the Tom Stone Detective novels on Amazon and writes content for businesses. Visit Don Simkovich Amazon.