Book description
Los Angeles, 15th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into
the night and met her horrific destiny.
Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood
and cut in half. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two
cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish
journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life...
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the
acclaimed 'LA Quartet':
The Black Dahlia
,
The Big Nowhere
,
LA Confidential
and
White Jazz
. His most recent novel,
Blood's a Rover
, completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two
volumes of which (
American Tabloid
and
The Cold Six Thousand
) were both
Sunday Times
bestsellers.
