James Ellroy

Fritz Brown’s L.A. - and his life - are masses of contradictions, like stirring chorales sung for the dead....

On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood....

James Ellroy's high-velocity, best selling novels have redefined noir for our age, propelling us within inches of the dark realities of America's recent history...

Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals....

We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination....

Political noir as only James Ellroy can write it....

Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns - it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer....

James Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing, behind-the-headlines crime epic....

From the modern master of noir comes a novel based on the real-life Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash, the malevolent monarch of the 1950s LA underground, and his Tinseltown tabloid Confidential magazine....

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 legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir - as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels - about his obsessive search for “atonement in women". The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name....

From the Demon Dog of American literature comes James Ellroy’s Hollywood Death Trip. Dig into a quintet of highly stylized true crime that delves into some of the most notorious, unsolved, midcentury-Hollywood murders…

In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night....

January '42. L.A. reels from Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese residents are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong. It's an early-warning signal of chaos....

Three citizens are butchered during a liquor store holdup. An unstable veteran cop vanishes without a trace....

Nobody plays accordion like Dick Contino. His skilled fingers can find beauty in even the schmaltziest Borscht Belt favorites, and with his matinee-idol looks he could be a real star....

Los Ángeles, años cincuenta. Camuflada tras sus fabulosas mansiones y el glamour de los clubs nocturnos, la ciudad es un hervidero de corrupción y bajas pasiones. Una noche, una matanza baña en sangre una cafetería de la ciudad....

Los Angeles, veille de Pearl Harbour : la découverte des cadavres d'une famille d'origine japonaise, les Watanabe, incite le LAPD à fabriquer...

En janvier 1942, Los Angeles est encore sous le choc de l'attaque de Pearl Harbor. Les Américains d'origine japonaise sont...

Los Angeles, 4 août 1962. La ville subit une vague de chaleur au milieu de l'été. Marilyn Monroe fait une overdose. Une starlette de série B est kidnappée...