Brown's Requiem
by James Ellroy | 
Suicide Hill
by James Ellroy | 
Out of Sight
by Elmore Leonard | 
True Confessions
by John Gregory Dunne | 
Ripley's Game
by Patricia Highsmith | 
Up in Honey's Room
by Elmore Leonard | 
Glitz
by Elmore Leonard | 
The Moonshine War
by Elmore Leonard | 
White Jazz
by James Ellroy | 
Freaky Deaky
by Elmore Leonard | 
Deep Water
by Patricia Highsmith | 
Hollywood Station
by Joseph Wambaugh | 
Ordinary Heroes
by Scott Turow | 
L.A. Noir
by James Ellroy | 
Because the Night
by James Ellroy | 
Four Freedoms
by John Crowley | 
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy |
Malevolent
by E. H. Reinhard | 
Rubbernecker
by Belinda Bauer |
Offering to the Storm
by Dolores Redondo |
The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. And in L.A., a Japanese family is found dead. Murder or ritual suicide? The investigation will draw four people into a totally Ellroy-ian tangle: a brilliant Japanese American forensic chemist; an unsatisfiably adventurous young woman; one police officer based in fact (William H. "Whiskey Bill" Parker, later to become the groundbreaking chief of the LAPD), the other the product of Ellroy's inimitable imagination (Dudley Smith, arch villain of The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz). As their lives intertwine, we are given a story of war and of consuming romance, a searing exposé of the Japanese internment, and an astonishingly detailed homicide investigation. In Perfidia, Ellroy delves more deeply than ever before into his characters' intellectual and emotional lives. But it has the full-strength, unbridled story-telling audacity that has marked all the acclaimed work of the Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction.