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James Ellroy
(b.1948)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, as well as the Underworld USA trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and Blood's a Rover. He is the author of one work of non-fiction, The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women.
Genres: Mystery, Historical Mystery
New Books
Series
L.A. Quartet
1. The Black Dahlia (1987)
2. The Big Nowhere (1988)
3. L.A. Confidential (1990)
4. White Jazz (1992)
1. The Black Dahlia (1987)
2. The Big Nowhere (1988)
3. L.A. Confidential (1990)
4. White Jazz (1992)
Underworld U.S.A.
1. American Tabloid (1995)
2. The Cold Six Thousand (2001)
3. Blood's a Rover (2009)
1. American Tabloid (1995)
2. The Cold Six Thousand (2001)
3. Blood's a Rover (2009)
Novels
Brown's Requiem (1981)
Clandestine (1982)
Killer On the Road (1986)
aka Silent Terror
Widespread Panic (2021)
The Enchanters (2023)
Clandestine (1982)
Killer On the Road (1986)
aka Silent Terror
Widespread Panic (2021)
The Enchanters (2023)
Collections
Anthologies edited
The Best American Crime Writing 2005 (2005) (with Otto Penzler)
The Best American Noir of the Century (2010) (with Otto Penzler)
The Best American Noir of the Century (2010) (with Otto Penzler)
Non fiction
Series contributed to
Best American Mystery Stories
The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 (2002) (with Otto Penzler)
The Best American Mystery Stories 3 (2004) (with Otto Penzler)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 (2002) (with Otto Penzler)
The Best American Mystery Stories 3 (2004) (with Otto Penzler)
Awards
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James Ellroy recommends
Up with the Sun (2023)
Thomas Mallon
"Thomas Mallon has been America's premier historical novelist for a decade. Up With the Sun cinches the accolade. It's New York City in the aching 80's. The murder of show-biz bottom feeder/monster Dick Kallman and his male lover ramifies throughout the turmoil of the decade--in a stunning hybrid of Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities and frontline reports from a beleaguered gay demimonde. This book packs period pizzazz and heartbreaking intimacy. And, as always with Mallon--it's a page-turning blast."
Every Hidden Thing (2021)
Ted Flanagan
"This is a righteous, hard-charging, bell-ringing, mother-....... debut novel!!!!!"
Green Sun (2018)
(Hanson, book 3)
Kent Anderson
"Kent Anderson has crafted a literary miracle here. We're transported to 'Nam and circa-'80 Oakland, reimagined as Hell, seen through the eyes of a crusading cop unique in the annals of police literature. This jazzy - and jazz influenced - novel is like the best of early Joseph Wambaugh."
Bull Mountain (2015)
(Bull Mountain, book 1)
Brian Panowich
"Bull Mountain is a stone gas and a stone winner! It s brother-versus-brother in the dope-damned South. This first novel has it all: moonshine, maryjane and mayhem! Read this book now and succumb to a startling new talent."
Blood on Snow (2015)
(Blood On Snow, book 1)
Jo Nesbø
"I am the world’s greatest living crime writer. [Jo Nesbø] is a man who is snapping at my heels like a rabid pit bull poised to take over my mantle when I dramatically pre-decease him."
Easy Money (2012)
(Stockholm , book 1)
Jens Lapidus
"At last an epic European thriller to rival Stieg Larsson books. It's an entirely new criminal world, beautifully rendered - and a wildly thrilling novel."
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