Böse Ex-Cops, intrigante Killer, feige FBI-Informanten und gefährliche Frauen - im Spiel um Macht, Millionen und Sex sind sie alle willfährige Marionetten, gelenkt von Politikern und ihren zweifelhaften Freunden. James Ellroys Abschluss...

Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for Confidential...

The second novel in the second of Ellroy's "L.A. Quartets", following on from 2014's "Perfidia". Dudley Smith is an army captain at this point in the extensive, expansive Ellroy mythology, working as a force for Japanese internment in...

Ein amerikanischer Thriller

Ellroy's back with the third of his LA Quartet! Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L.A.P.D....

Die schwarze Dahlie

January '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese residents are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city.A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man job....

LA, 1962. Marilyn Monroe ODs. The Chief calls in Freddy Otash, a tainted ex-cop and freelance extortionist. He tears through all those who block his path to the truth and tracks down Marilyn Monroe's horrific last charade through a...

A massive novel of World War II Los Angeles. The crowning work of an American master.It is January, 1942. Torrential rainstorms hit L.A. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops rate it a routine dead-man job. They're grievously...

"Blut auf dem Mond" ist ein intensiver Krimi-Thriller von James Ellroy, der in den 1950er Jahren in Los Angeles spielt. Der Protagonist, Detective Lloyd Hopkins, ist besessen von seiner Arbeit und hat eine besondere Fähigkeit, die...

L.A. Confidential von Ellroy, James

"Widespread Panic" von James Ellroy ist ein packender Noir-Roman, der tief in die düsteren Ecken des Hollywoods der 1950er Jahre eintaucht. Die Geschichte folgt dem ehemaligen LAPD-Polizisten und jetzigen Privatdetektiv Freddy Otash,...