The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was 10 years old. He hated and lusted for his mother and 'summoned her dead'. She was murdered three months later. This book is a predator's confession and a treatise on guilt.
The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was 10 years old. He hate...
The tortured body of a young woman was found drained of blood and cut in half 5 days after she went missing in January 1947. The newspapers called her the Black Dahlia and the cops investigating get caught up in the dead girl's troubled story.
The tortured body of a young woman was found drained of blood and cut in half 5 days after she went missing in January 1947. The newspapers called her...
This novel is set in Los Angeles, the city of angels that has become the city of the Angel of Death. It is about communist witch-hunts and about insanely violent killings which are terrorising the community.
This novel is set in Los Angeles, the city of angels that has become the city of the Angel of Death. It is about communist witch-hunts and about insan...
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.
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 sec...
This story describes the life of Lieutenant Dave Klein who is a lawyer, but also something else. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect.
This story describes the life of Lieutenant Dave Klein who is a lawyer, but also something else. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots ...
James Ellroy and Otto Penzler mined 100 years of writing, 1910-2010, to find this treasure trove of 39 stories. From noir's twenties-era infancy come gems like James M. Cain's 'Pastorale', and its post-war heyday boasts giants like Mickey Spillane and Evan Hunter.
James Ellroy and Otto Penzler mined 100 years of writing, 1910-2010, to find this treasure trove of 39 stories. From noir's twenties-era infancy come ...
Set in 1950s L.A., 'Clandestine' follows Frederick Underhill of the L.A. Police Department as he pursues his dream to become the most celebrated detective of all time.
Set in 1950s L.A., 'Clandestine' follows Frederick Underhill of the L.A. Police Department as he pursues his dream to become the most celebrated detec...
Nominated for the Folio Prize It is December 6 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans - but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. William H Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police. He's superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith - Irish...
Nominated for the Folio Prize It is December 6 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squ...