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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. Confidental
The big nowhere
The Black Dahlia

Recommended Reading Order

  1. The Black Dahlia

    • 384 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    Los Angeles, 1th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in helf. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life. The first part of Ellroy's crime fiction masterwork, the LA Quartet, and based around a real murder case, The Black Dahlia pulses with violence, darkness and brutality. It is crime writing at its most powerful.

    The Black Dahlia1
    3.8

  2. The big nowhere

    From the widely acclaimed author of" L.A. Confidential" comes the absorbing story of three man caught in a massive web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. ""The Big Nowhere" "makes you feel as if you are really in the Hollywood of 1950".--"The Wall Street Journal".

    The big nowhere2
    4.1

  3. L.A. Confidental

    It is Christmas, 1951, Los Angeles. A city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals, six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L.A.P.D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers

    L.A. Confidental3
    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