James Ellroy

The second novel in Ellroy's second 'L.A. Quartet', which began with the publication of Perfidia in 2014. Ellroy writes with raw power ... undeniably one of the most influential crime writers of our time THE TIMES a tangled fever-dream ... Ellroy offers a grandiose, Wagnerian vision of wartime LA SUNDAY TIMES A brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles...

Los Angeles. Summer 1962. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. And Freddy-O is back. This is James Ellroy at his most crazed, brilliant, provocative and profanely hilarious. Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some...

The Black Dahlia is a neo-noir crime novel from the legendary crime novelist James Ellroy. Los Angeles, 15th January 1947. A beautiful young woman walks into the night and meets a horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body is found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers call her 'The Black Dahlia'. For two cops, what begins...

Ellroy's back with the third of his LA Quartet! Christmas 1951, Los Angeles— a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L.A.P.D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers... The...

"The king of macho noir" returns to his most notorious character, Freddy Otash, in a high-octane, daring story. Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood — and it got to him bad. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp — and, most notably, the head strongarm goon...

The King of macho noir returns to his most notorious character, Freddy Otash, in a high-octane, daring story. Turn to the first page. Disavow what you think you know about the so-called Red Scare. This is commie malfeasance and '60s L.A. as you've never read it before. It's late October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded. The Russkies...

The Sunday Times bestseller. This is World War Two as you have never seen it. This is America as only Ellroy can write it. 'There has never been a writer like James Ellroy.' Telegraph Los Angeles, December 6, 1941. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. War fever and race hate grip the city, and...