With The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz James Ellroy melded noir and history to create his first L.A. Quartet. Perfidia, which comes out September 9 on Knopf, marks ...

With Perfidia, the novelist mines racial tensions in wartime Los Angeles, digging into the city's dark past once again to work through his own. Ellroy was building a new history of Los Angeles out of ...

The time frame allows Ellroy to bring back literally dozens of characters, major and minor, from the earlier novels. Many of them, we already know, will come to bad ends as their fictional futures ...

Get in the ring with James Ellroy, he throws out words like a boxer amped on uppers. Bam. Bam. Bam. Head shots. Kidney shots. Gut shots. Low blows. Droplets of sweat and blood arcing into the ether.

Writer James Ellroy has spent decades capturing a gritty, noirish Los Angeles in sprawling crime novels like The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential. Ellroy could be a character in one of his own books ...

Demons have pursued James Ellroy since his mother was brutally murdered in 1958. In My Dark Places, the crime writer recounted his attempts to reopen the unsolved investigation with the help of a ...