James EllroyVezi magazinul LibrisA Time Magazine Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, My Dark Places presents the harrowing autobiography of crime writer James Ellroy, who teamed up with a homicide cop as an adult to help solve the murder of his mother--an event that occurred when he was ten years old.
Original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer.
The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer The internationally acclaimed author of the L.
Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.
suburb.
Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
In 1994, Ellroy quit running.
He went back to L.
, to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love.
What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Ellroy is more powerful than ever.
--The Nation Astonishing .
original, daring, brilliant.
--Philadelphia Inquirer.
