![]() ![]() ![]() Baffling crimes that hurtle superbly etched characters toward damnation and salvation. “True Confessions” greatly influenced my current series of wartime Los Angeles books.Įxplosive language. It’s a pulsating potpourri of racial invective, flamboyant street talk, cop rebop, and the wiiiiiiild American idiom at its most profane. “The Black Dahlia.” The language is explosive. Beyond yours truly, I would point readers to John Gregory Dunne’s 1977 classic, “True Confessions.” It’s the first novelized treatment of the hellish 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short, a.k.a. Why mince words? My own novels, chiefly “The Black Dahlia,” “Perfidia” and my new book, “This Storm.” “Buy or die” - that’s my directive, issued to readers worldwide. ![]() What books would you recommend to someone who wants to know more about Los Angeles? Man, what a great period novel! Man, what a great depiction of 1924 Chicago! Man, what a great portrayal of two world-class psychopaths! It’s the story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, and their vile and idiotic “thrill killing” of Bobby Franks. I’ve read it six or seven times, over the years. “Compulsion,” the 1956 novel by Meyer Levin. He’s Robert Ludlum for the new millennium. The Bible, “Prayer,” by Pastor Timothy Keller, and - of late - one of the groovy Israeli hit man novels by Daniel Silva. ![]() Neither did William Faulkner, another cat I don’t dig.” The Los Angeles crime novelist, whose new book is “This Storm,” is no fan of Cormac McCarthy’s work: “McCarthy fails to employ quotation marks. ![]()
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