Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins canâ t stand music, or any loud sounds. Heâ s got a beautiful wife, but he canâ t get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. Heâ s a thinking manâ s cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent.
Now, thereâ s something haunting him. He sees a connection in a series of increasingly gruesome murders of women committed over a period of twenty years. To solve the case, Hopkins will dump all the rules and risk his career to make the final link and get the killer.
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A. Confidential (1990).