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. His most recent novel, Blood's a Rover, completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers.
A mesmerising study of the psycho-sexual obsession ... extraordinarily well written The Times One of those rare, brilliantly written books you want to press on other people Time Out A wonderful tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit Publishers Weekly A unique voice in American crime writing Sunday Telegraph The outstanding crime writer of his generation The Independent