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Dirty Work. Dirty Money. Dirty Lives. Dirty Times. Dirty Lies. Dirty City.Sy Mooney is not a cop, anymore. Now, he does dirty work for cash. His latest job: finding the hooker blackmailing a rich maniac. Sy’s prospects are not so good. But … more

America’s master of noir delivers his masterpiece, a rip-roaring, devilishly wild ride through the bloody end of the 1960’s. It’s dark baby, and hot hot hot. Martin Luther King assassinated. Robert Kennedy assassinated. Los Angeles, 1968. C… more

By the author of Dare Me and The End of Everything On October 7, 1949, dark-haired starlet Jean Spangler kissed her five-year-old daughter good-bye and left for a night shoot at a Hollywood studio. “Wish me luck,” she said as she crossed he… more

James Ellroy, Dan Brown, Ian Rankin, George Pelacanoes, Ken Bruen, Michael Connelly, Ridley Pearson … the roster of writers interviewed in these pages includes those who have won Edgar, Shamus, Anthony and Macavity awards. The interview… more

From the internationally bestselling author of Blood Men and Collecting Cooper comes a riveting new thriller about one father’s revenge and another’s fight for survival. Theodore Tate never forgot his first crime scene—ten-year-old Jessica … more

“It’s like James Ellroy hijacked by the guy who wrote Being John Malkovich and starring The Rock.” - Matthew Lillard, ‘Shaggy’ from ‘Scooby Doo’Two tales of crime gone wrong in Hong Kong.Bruiser, a rock of a man, used to do whatever the hel… more

Violation. Assault. Murder.The men and women who take up the badge are supposed to protect society from these terrible crimes. What happens when the violators are the very people we depend on to keep us safe?Jennifer Wayne and Carl Bean bec… more

“The best kind of historical mystery: great history, great mystery, all wrapped up in a voice so authentic you feel it has come out of the past to whisper in your ear.”—Lee Child, author of Worth Dying For”A remarkable achievement; imagine… more

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

“It’s like James Ellroy hijacked by the guy who wrote Being John Malkovich and starring The Rock.” - Lawrence Gray, screenwriter and founder of the Hong Kong Writers’ CircleTwo tales of crime gone wrong in Hong Kong.Bruiser, a rock of a man… more

“Astonishing … original, daring, brilliant.” —Philadelphia InquirerIn 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb.  Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a chea… more

Life looks good for John Deal. A new contract promises to put the family business in the black and restore its reputation, tarnished by suicide, the suicide of John’s father. Getting out from under Barton Deal’s shady past is tough. The new… more

A compulsively readable debut crime novel inspired by the legendary real-life murder of Kitty Genovese. At 4:00 A.M. on March 13, 1964, a young woman returning home from her shift at a local bar is attacked in the courtyard of her Queens … more

Don Taylor’s work has been published as a mix of James Ellroy via Dennis Potter and reviewed as equating with Kurt Vonnegut. Based in an area of isolated countryside, Alex is the writer of successful crime fiction. Jayjay and Cheryl are a… more

From the author of Dirty Sally and Body Scissors, a no-holds-barred thriller set in the seedy underbelly of Austin, Texas In his pulse-quickening new thriller, Michael Simon continues to do for Austin what James Ellroy has done for L.A. It-… more

EDGAR AWARD WINNER—Best Paperback Original Mystery 1993.When Rachel Fletcher, an old college flame, enters Harry James Denton’s office needing his private detecting services, he’d rather not. But he prefers money to poverty, and agrees to … more

         Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood  is the anatomy of the origins of an American literary landmark and its legacy.      Ralph F. Voss was a high school junior in Plainville, Kansas in mid-November of 1959 when four m... <a class="more" href="/books/detail/B006MKPB42/#editorial-review">more</a>

What could cause Bob to give up his job at the Los Angeles pathology lab that demands so little of him, where he can play Tetris and Web surf whenever he wants? What could lead him to walk out on his beautiful girlfriend, who makes her livi… more

As a novelist who has spent years crafting and refining his intense and oft outrageous “Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction” persona, James Ellroy has used interviews as a means of shaping narratives outside of his novels. Conversations wit… more

Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America’s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state’s evidence, and half of it in print for the first … more