James Ellroy

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

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

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

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

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 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…

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...

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

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...

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....

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....

Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America’s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state’s evidence, and half of it in print for the first time....

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

Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950s....

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

In disgrace after a badly handled arrest in New Orleans, Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins is assigned as a liaison officer to an FBI investigation of a series of diabolical and clever bank robberies....

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....

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

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....

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.....