My Dark Places

Acclaim for JAMES ELLROY’s

MY DARK PLACES

“An obsessive loop that tightens into a noose … bitter, twisted soul-searching.”

—New York

“The best true crime book of the year…. Too grotesque to ignore … too poignant to put down. James Ellroy’s My Dark Places [is] exceptional in every way.”

—The Boston Book Review

“Strange and perversely fascinating…. [My Dark Places] is part thriller, part screech of pain, part botched exorcism…. It is also a profoundly pessimistic meditation on the ubiquity of evil…. A candid chronicle of growing up weird under the sentence of unexpressed grief.”

—Newsday

“As close as you’ll get, safely, to a lifetime obsession with crime. Don’t read after dark.”

—Mirabella

“A dazzling memoir that reads half like a romance, half like the logbook for a homicide investigation…. My Dark Places is remarkable.”

—A. M. Homes, Bazaar

“A masterpiece…. Incredible, fascinating detail…. Ellroy is never anything but honest: All the scars are exposed … and best of all, it is all written in that familiar Ellroy style, each sentence like a finger jabbed in your chest…. This is a mesmerizing book.”

—Men’s Journal

“My Dark Places is a genre-busting, oddball classic. A creepy primer on murder one…. Ellroy’s rat-a-tat-tat narration gives his self-lacerating account a sense of brakeless free fall…. [He] is a haunted man, and more than writer enough to haunt anyone who hears his tale.”

—Newsweek

“Remarkable. His most shocking work yet. Ellroy’s writing— his whole life—has been leading him to this book.”

—GQ

“Magnificent…. Your mouth will go dry as you read this book. Savoring every word, you won’t stop until you’re done.”

—Philadelphia Inquirer