My Dark Places

ALSO BY JAMES ELLROY

“Nobody in his generation matches the breadth and

depth of James Ellroy’s way with noir.”

—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

CRIME WAVE

Los Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy. With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, Ellroy returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog-shrouded netherworld where “every third person is a peeper, prowler, pederast, prostitute, pillhead, pothead or pimp.”

From the 1950s scandal sheets to this morning’s police blotter, and from his mother’s unsolved murder to the slaying of Nicole Brown Simpson, Ellroy investigates true crimes and restores humanity to their victims. He also enlists the forgotten luminaries of a vanished Hollywood in two baroquely twisted novellas of slaughter, smut-mongering, and corruption.

True Crime/Crime Fiction/0-375-70471-X

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