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My Dark Places

My Dark Places

Biography & MemoirTrue Crime
Pages
5
Published
1996
Language
English

Synopsis

In 1958, James Ellroy's mother was murdered, a crime that remained unsolved and haunted him for decades. This memoir follows Ellroy's journey from a troubled youth obsessed with crime to a celebrated author, as he confronts his past and reopens his mother's cold case. Teaming up with a homicide detective, Ellroy delves into the dark corners of American murder and his own forbidding memories to seek answers.

Prose complexity
7/10

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DarkMelancholicGrittyReflective
Revenge

Genres

Biography & Memoir True Crime Biography

About the author

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James Ellroy

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), The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A. Confidential (1990), White Jazz (1992), American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009). -- Wikipedia