When P.I. Elvis Cole discovers that his partner, Joe Pike, was once the lover of a murdered woman, he finds himself going beyond normal investigative procedures and starts to pry into the very private realm of the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division
A reckoning has come to the City of Angels.
A reckoning has come to the City of Angels.
El día empieza como cualquier otro en Los Ángeles: el sol quema y los vientos de Santa Ana soplan.
The two suits were Sheriff's homicide detectives named Connelly and Gerald. Connelly was a large, serious man; Gerald had the empty eyes of a man who had been on the job too long. Starkey didn't like being around him.
But the gang have picked the wrong house. The accountant works for the mafia and holds all the local family's financial records.
The body of a young woman is discovered in the hills above LA. Just another murder, or a death that will rip apart a family and destroy the friendship between...
He hopes. Praise for The Monkey's Raincoat “Outstanding characters, tight plot, and scintillating prose style. . . . This fast-paced story speeds Elvis Cole to a chilling, heart-stopping ending.”—Mystery Scene “Is Bob Crais good?
L. A. Requiem
Song of Dragons tells a story of blood, steel, and dragonfire. BOOK ONE: BLOOD OF REQUIEM Long ago stood the kingdom of Requiem, a land of men who could grow wings and scales, breathe fire, and take flight as dragons. Requiem ruled the sky.
In his hypnotic debut, master crime writer James Ellroy takes us to the edge of an abyss, where nothing, not even Beethoven, can let in the light.