The attractive redhead had been raped, then strangled with her stocking. Her body was dumped in a field. Her pearls were scattered nearby. It didn't take detectives long to figure out who she was. It ...

A portrait of American crime writer James Ellroy that is a journey through his dark personal and literary obsessions, marked by the murder of his mother, Jean Ellroy, in 1958, when he was just a ...

Welcome to Los Angeless, hipsters, baddest of the bad cities, home of James Ellory, pre-eminent crime novelist of our generation. "All LA crime lives in me," says Ellroy, in this guided tour of the ...

Murders abound in new novels from James Ellroy, Joe R. Lansdale, Laura McHugh and Leonardo Padura. By Sarah Weinman The Los Angeles crime novelist, whose new book is “This Storm,” is no fan of Cormac ...