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________________________ '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 ___________
America's greatest crime writer investigates his mother's murder. On 21 June 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found strangled the next day. Her ten year-old son James had been with her estranged husband all weekend
'The king of macho noir' GUARDIAN 'The American Dostoevsky' JOYCE CAROL OATES 'One of the great American writers of our time' LOS ANGELES TIMES ' Fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted and paranoid' STEPH
It's 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob, Howard Hughes and J Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America's soul, drawing into their murderous conspiracies the damned and the soon-to-be damned. WAYNE TEDROW JR: parricide, a
The first novel in Ellroy's extraordinary Underworld USA Trilogy as featured on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read. 1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy's presidency. Three
DALLAS, NOVEMBER 22ND, 1963. Wayne Tedrow Jr has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6,000. He finds himself instead in the middle of the cover-up following JFK's assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of pu
'The king of macho noir' GUARDIAN 'The American Dostoevsky' JOYCE CAROL OATES 'One of the great American writers of our time' LOS ANGELES TIMES ' Fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted and paranoid' STEPH
'The king of macho noir' GUARDIAN 'The American Dostoevsky' JOYCE CAROL OATES 'One of the great American writers of our time' LOS ANGELES TIMES ' Fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted and paranoid' STEPH
'The king of macho noir' GUARDIAN 'The American Dostoevsky' JOYCE CAROL OATES 'One of the great American writers of our time' LOS ANGELES TIMES ' Fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted and paranoid' STEPH
'Nobody does crime like James Ellroy . . . One of Ellroy's best works in years' Sunday Times 'This is the master of darkness at his incomparable best simply impossible to put down' Daily Mail Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broi
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 for Confidential magazine. Welcome to the wo
Tre vidt forskellige politifolk bringes sammen af en massakre på kaffebaren 'The Night Owl' i Los Angeles. Den anstændige betjent Edmund Exley er optaget af en stor skandale om politibrutalitet. Hans modsætning er den voldsparate strømer Wendell &
I denne politiske thriller giver James Ellroy nyt liv til teorierne omkring snigmordet på præsident John F. Kennedy. Gennem krimiens hovedpersoner, tre tidligere FBI-agenter - alle med hver deres blakkede ry -, oprulles begivenheder, der leder op til præs
'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 the internment of Japanese-American
The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of P
L.A. Confidential is epic noir, a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are caught
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can't stand music, or any loud sounds. He's got a beautiful wife, but he can't get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. He's a thinking
Three of Ellroy's most compelling novels featuring Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins in one volume. Blood On The Moon : 20 random killings of women are unconnected in police files. But Det. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins sees a pattern. As he is drawn to the murde
American Tabloid gives us John F. Kennedy's rise and fall from an insider's perspective. We're there for the rigged 1960 election and for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. We're the eyes and ears and souls of three rogue cops who've signed on fo
Blood's a Rover takes us into the 70s. RFK and MLK are dead. A kid private eye clashes with a mob goon and an enforcer for FBI director Edgar Hoover in L.A. There's an armoured-car heist and a cache of missing emeralds. Revolution brews in Haiti a
From bestselling author James Ellroy ('The neo-noir eminence of L.A. crime fiction' The New Yorker ) a gritty, fast-paced historical crime thriller set in 1962 Los Angeles during the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis. 'A mesmerising crime
'Nobody does crime like James Ellroy . . . One of Ellroy's best works in years' Sunday Times 'This is the master of darkness at his incomparable best simply impossible to put down' Daily Mail Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broi
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy concludes. We've traversed the interlocked conspiracies of the decade and are there for the wind-up and swan songs. Blood's A Rover takes us into the seventies. MLK and RFK are dead. The Democratic National Convention
America was never innocent. Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy . It's James Ellroy's pop history of the 1960s, his window-peeper's view of government misconduct, his dirty trickster's take on the great events of an incendiary era. I
The Black Dahlia depicts the infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into the obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. His rogue investigation is a one-way ticket to hell. The Big Nowhere blends the crime novel with th