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Perfidia by James Ellroy
40.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
It is December 6, 1941, in Los Angeles. World War II has raged for two years in Great Britain and Europe. Japan has gone on a rampage in Asia and the Pacific - and America's entrance into the war is a widely accepted and utterly foregone conclusion. Los Angeles is mainland America's gateway to the Pacif ...Show more
Perfidia (Second LA Quartet #1) by James Ellroy
27.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: #1 in the second LA Quartet
Nominated for the Folio Prize 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 hate grip the city and the Japanese in ...Show more
The Best American Noir of the Century by James Ellroy
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
In his introduction to the The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, "noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It's the nightmare of flawed souls with ...Show more
The Enchanters by James Ellroy
37.00 NZD
Category: Mystery/Thriller
Fan favourite Freddy Otash is at large once more, tasked with running the cover-up on Marilyn Monroe's life and death. Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's look ...Show more
This Storm (#2 Second LA Quartet) by James Ellroy
38.00 NZD
Category: Mystery/Thriller | Series: #2 in the second L.A. Quartet
From 'one of the great American writers of our time' (Los Angeles Times Book Review) - a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake of Pearl Harbor. New Year's Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese internment ...Show more
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