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L.A. Quartet Series

This series delves into the gritty underbelly of 1940s and 1950s Los Angeles. It follows interconnected stories that expose deep-seated crime and corruption. Each installment introduces new characters, but all are bound by the suffocating atmosphere of the post-war metropolis. It's a raw look at crime, moral decay, and human nature in the city of angels.

White Jazz
L. A. Confidential
The Big Nowhere
The Black Dahlia

Recommended Reading Order

  1. The Black Dahlia

    • 371 pages
    • 13 hours of reading

    On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches-into a region of total madness.

    The Black Dahlia1
    3.8

  2. The Big Nowhere

    • 496 pages
    • 18 hours of reading

    This work is set in 1950s, Los Angeles. The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a malestrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness.

    The Big Nowhere2
    4.1

  3. L. A. Confidential

    "L.A. is a city where it's hard to tell the good guys from the bad. At Central Police Station, Christmas 1951, cops beat up six suspects.

    L. A. Confidential3
    4.1

  4. White Jazz

    • 416 pages
    • 15 hours of reading

    Best-selling crime fiction author James Ellroy returns with the fourth in his LA Quartet.Klein's been hung out as bait, a bad cop to draw the heat, and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden.

    White Jazz4
    4.0