Friday, October 5, 2007

The Black Dahlia by: James Ellroy


This is a really good book, you just have to get past the first couple of chapters and then you are hooked. The beginning doesn't make sense at first, but you'll get it a little bit into the book. I really recommend it.

On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia--and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.

Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia--driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches--into a region of total madness.

No comments: