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Brown's Requiem | James Ellroy Los Angeles - Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossesions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy `Fat Dog` Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man. This is the beginning of the nightmare: the underworld of gold caddies, arson and incest played against the backdrop of an LA surreal by night and bad by day; of long hidden secrets that will drive Brown back to the bottle and to the gun: all conspire to make this one of the most hypnotic crime novels ever written. |
Clandestine | James Ellroy 1951 - Patrolman Frederick Underhill of the Los Angeles Police Department is an ambitious rookie with a dream to become the most celebrated detective of his time. He is also sexually promiscuous. His two drives are brought together by the slaying of Maggie Cadwallader, a lonely woman whom Underhill slept with shortly before her death. Using his inside knowledge, Underhill discovers a likely suspect, and uses the information to buy himself on to the case which is being handled by LA`s most fearsome and most unscrupulous pursuer of murder: Lieutenant Dudley Smith. Soon Underhill is an accomplice to Smith`s ruthless interrogation techniques. But far from the celebrity he was hoping for, Underhill finds himself on the edge of the abyss, his whole life and future about to take a fall. Read review. |
The Black Dahlia | James Ellroy Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers called her `The Black Dahlia`. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl`s twisted life... |
The Big Nowhere | James Ellroy Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness... Read review. |
LA Confidential | James Ellroy Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three LAPD detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers... |
White Jazz | James Ellroy Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord, mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect. |
No Beast So Fierce | Edward Bunker No Beast So Fierce is an angry and mercilessly suspenseful novel about an ex-con`s attempt to negotiate the `straight world` and his swan dive back into the paradoxical security of crime. It is airtight in its construction, almost photorealistic in its portrayal of LA lowlife and utterly knowledgeable about the terrors of liberty, the high of the quick score and the rage that makes the finger tighten on the trigger of a gun. Read review. |
Blood On The Moon | James Ellroy Twenty random killings of women remain unconnected in police files. But Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins sees a pattern. As he is drawn to the murderer, icy intelligence and white-heated madness are pitted against each other... Read review. |
Because Of The Night | James Ellroy Jacob Herzog, hero cop, has disappeared. A multiple murder committed with a pre-Civil war revolver remains unsolved. Are the two cases linked? As Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins pieces the puzzle together, he uncovers the dark secrets of John Havilland, a sinister psychiatrist. |
Suicide Hill | James Ellroy Duane Rice kidnaps a bank manager`s girlfriend and an orgy of violence erupts. Leading the manhunt Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins stumbles on a horrifying conspiracy of corruption and betrayal - among his own colleagues... Read review. |
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