Book Review: My Dark Places by James Ellroy

My Dark Places James Ellroy Vintage Books, 1997 ISBN 0-679-76205-1 Trade Paperback James Ellroy, prolific Los Angeles crime writer, takes us on a rock-strewn, rutted road through his internal landscape in this memoir, which has at its heart, the loss of his mother to an anonymous murder. This intimate view of the inside of James [...]

December 31, 2011 Tags: autobiography, California, memoir, novelist, true crime, Vintage Books Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments

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