James Ellroy: 41 books

Book cover of White Jazz
by James Ellroy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011

The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's...
Book cover of Perfidia

Perfidia

A novel

by James Ellroy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014

NATIONAL BESTSELLER      AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans—but now, war fever and race...
Book cover of Blood on the Moon
by James Ellroy
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011

A Los Angeles homicide detective must catch a serial killer in this breathtaking crime novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of L.A. Confidential.   Lloyd Hopkins was not yet a cop when the Watts riots ripped Los Angeles apart. A member of the California National Guard, he had...
Book cover of The Best American Crime Writing 2005
by James Ellroy, Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009

The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by...
Book cover of Hollywood Nocturnes
by James Ellroy
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011

A novella and five short stories from one of the most hard-boiled writers in American crime fiction Nobody plays accordion like Dick Contino. His skilled fingers can find beauty in even the schmaltziest borscht belt favorites, and with his matinee-idol looks he could be a real star. Right now,...
Book cover of L.A. Confidential (Cuarteto de Los Ángeles 3)
by James Ellroy
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2017

Exploración del bajo mundo del crimen y la violencia en la época dorada de Hollywood, L.A. Confidential es la tercera novela del «Cuarteto de Los Ángeles», tetralogía que se ha convertido en un clásico de la novela negra del siglo XX. Los Ángeles, años cincuenta. Camuflada tras sus...
Book cover of El Cuarteto de Los Ángeles

El Cuarteto de Los Ángeles

La Dalia Negra, El gran desierto, L.A. Confidential, Jazz blanco

by James Ellroy
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 11, 2019

La Dalia Negra, El gran desierto, L.A. Confidential y Jazz Blanco completan la edición definitiva de «El Cuarteto de los Ángeles», una tetralogía sobre las alcantarillas americanas que se ha convertido en un clásico de la novela negra del siglo XX. «El Cuarteto de Los Ángeles» es un...
Book cover of Black Dahlia - Die schwarze Dahlie
by James Ellroy
Language: German
Release Date: February 27, 2015

"Ellroy ist der wichtigste zeitgenössische Krimiautor." Der Spiegel Los Angeles 1947: Auf einem verlassenen Grundstück wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau entdeckt – nackt und bestialisch zugerichtet. Der Mord der Schwarzen Dahlie macht Schlagzeilen und löst die größte Verbrecherjagd in der Geschichte...
Book cover of Ein amerikanischer Thriller
by James Ellroy
Language: German
Release Date: February 27, 2015

Macht, Milliarden und Mord im Amerika der Kennedys. James Ellroy erzählt von der Kehrseite des Mythos jener Jahre. Es ist auch die Geschichte eines vielfachen Verrats und einer Männerfreundschaft zwischen zwei ungleichen FBI-Agenten, deren erbittertster Widersacher im Sold des Multimillionärs Howard Hughes steht.
Book cover of White Jazz

White Jazz

Kriminalroman

by James Ellroy
Language: German
Release Date: February 27, 2015

"Ellroy ist der wichtigste zeitgenössische Krimiautor." Der Spiegel Los Angeles 1958: Dave Klein, Lieutenant des LAPD, ist Cop und Gangster, Ermittler und Killer zugleich. In dem Sumpf aus Gewalt, Korruption und Drogen versteht er es meister-haft, seinen Kopf über Wasser zu halten. Bis das FBI im...
Book cover of L.A. Confidential

L.A. Confidential

Stadt der Teufel

by James Ellroy
Language: German
Release Date: February 27, 2015

"Ellroy ist der wichtigste zeitgenössische Krimiautor." Der Spiegel Los Angeles 1951: Am Weihnachtsabend überfallen Unbekannte das Nachtcafé "The Nite Owl" und ermorden wie im Rausch die Gäste. Ed Exley, Jack Vincennes und Bud White vom LAPD sollen den Fall gemeinsam klären. Doch jeder von ihnen...
Book cover of Blutschatten
by James Ellroy
Language: German
Release Date: February 27, 2015

"Ellroy ist der wichtigste zeitgenössische Krimiautor." Der Spiegel Los Angeles 1950: In der Metropole wird Jagd auf Kommunisten und ihre Sympathisanten gemacht. Gleichzeitig zieht ein offenbar irrsinniger Mörder die Stadt in seinen Bann. Drei Männer nehmen die Verfolgung auf: Danny Upshaw und...
Book cover of American Tabloid

American Tabloid

Underworld USA (1)

by James Ellroy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011

CHOSEN BY TIME MAGAZINE AS ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR "ONE HELLISHLY EXCITING RIDE." --Detroit Free Press The '50s are finished. Zealous young senator Robert Kennedy has a red-hot jones to nail Jimmy Hoffa. JFK has his eyes on the Oval Office. J. Edgar Hoover is swooping down...
Book cover of The Big Nowhere
by James Ellroy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013

"ELLROY IS THE AUTHOR OF SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL CRIME NOVELS EVER WRITTEN"- NEW YORK TIMES Danny Upshaw is a Sheriff's deputy stuck with a bunch of snuffs nobody cares about; they're his chance to make his name as a cop...and to sate his darkest curiosities. Mal Considine...
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