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 man's cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent. Now, there's something haunting him. He sees a connection in a series of increasingly gruesome murders of women committed over a period of twenty years. To solve the case, Hopkins will dump all the rules and risk his career to make the final link and get the killer.
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"An early Ellroy novel and the first in a trilogy one can see his style still in its infancy but the themes are there and the on here is one that people still have trouble dealing with. an interesting read by the king of crime fiction. " — Bruno (5 out of 5 stars)
"An early Ellroy novel and the first in a trilogy one can see his style still in its infancy but the themes are there and the on here is one that people still have trouble dealing with. an interesting read by the king of crime fiction. "
“A brilliant detective and a mysterious psychopath come together in a final dance of death.”
“One of the great American writers of our time.”
“Bold, electrifying…Ellroy strips prose to its raw, gleaming bone…James Ellroy is an American original, a sophisticated primitive as smooth as the snick-snick! of a pump shotgun and as subtle as the inevitable blast.”
“Ellroy’s writing is powerful…his pacing relentless…his characters real. He is a major talent.”
“Nobody in this generation matches the breadth and depth of James Ellroy’s way with noir.”
In Los Angeles a psychotic police sergeant and a psychopath are obsessed with sex. They tangle when the sergeant sees a connection in a twenty-year series of murders. When he sets out to solve them, much violence and sex ensue. The plot, by the author of LA CONFIDENTIAL, seems implausible, even for Los Angeles. But L.J. Ganser's confident delivery grows on you until you almost believe that the bizarre events are actually happening. He gives every character an individual voice and personality, which, given the prevailing level of psychological disturbance, is not a trivial feat. Ganser is an excellent guide for a wild tour through the underbelly of Los Angeles.
“L.J. Ganser's confident delivery grows on you…He gives every character an individual voice and personality…an excellent guide for a wild tour through the underbelly of Los Angeles.”
“More than any other contemporary author, Ellroy gets inside the skull of the sadistic psychopath…A true original.”
" Buena historia, sigue vigente a pesar de que han pasado unos 30 años de que Ellroy la escribió. No me acomodé mucho a la narrativa, sin embargo. A veces me hacía perder el hilo de la historia, supongo que es cuestión de acostumbrarse. "
" j'ai préféré ses romans se situant durant les années 50 et 60. mais ça reste du très bon polar "
" Decent enough little crime fiction novel, but I'd only really recommend it to hardcore Ellroysians to see how his themes and writing style have developed over the past thirty years or so. "
" If you're an Ellroy fan, then this is interesting enough to warrant a 3 (to see the development of Ellroy's themes and obsessions), but if you're not it's probably a 1. So I'll settle. "
" Pulp, and don't be told differently. "
" SO GOOD! I can't wait to read the rest of Ellroy's writings. "
" I enjoyed this book quite a bit. The supercop with some tragic flaws is starting to wear a little though. Not sure what purpose the ending serves. "
" really good so far. a few parts are kind of gross though. "
" The Lloyd Hopkins series was all right, but it paved the way for Ellroy's LA quartet, so that’s a great thing. If you haven't read Ellroy yet, though, I'd start with the Black Dahlia instead of one of these earlier ones. "
" Tightly drawn characters battling for some crude sense of justice and sanity in a world where the world turns a deaf ear to depravity as long as it's on the side of the Law. "
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His LA Quartet novels—The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz—were international bestsellers. American Tabloid was Time’s Novel of the Year for 1995, and his memoir My Dark Places was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996. He lives on the California coast.
L. J. Ganser is a multiple Audie Award–winning narrator with over six hundred titles recorded to date. Prized for versatility, his work ranges from preschool books to crime noir thrillers, from astronomical adventures in both science and science fiction, to Arctic Circle high school basketball stories. He lives in New York City with his family and dog, Mars.
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