Synopses & Reviews
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins cant stand music, or any loud sounds. Hes got a beautiful wife, but he cant get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. Hes a thinking mans cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent.
Now, theres 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.
About the Author
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels-The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz-were international bestsellers. American Tabloid was Times Novel of the Year for 1995; his memoir My Dark Places was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996; his most recent novel, The Cold Six Thousand, was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year for 2001. He lives on the California coast.