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Somewhere out there is a murderer with over twenty killings to his name - each an apparently random slaying of a woman over a twenty-year period and all unconnnected on the police files.
But Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins begins to see a pattern: he senses connections between this string of seemingly motiveless pointless and unsolved killings. Then the murderer emerges not as a random killer but a cool efficient despatcher - in his own eyes a saver of souls and protector of the innocent.
As they are drawn inexorably together Hopkins and the murderer challenge each other in a confrontation which pits icy intelligence against white-heated madness...
About the author
JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy:
American Tabloid,
The Cold Six Thousand, and
Blood's A Rover; and the L.A. Quartet novels:
The Black Dahlia,
The Big Nowhere,
L.A. Confidential, and
White Jazz. He is also the author of two other Freddy Otash novels,
Widespread Panic and
The Enchanters. He was awarded the 2022 Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Colorado.
Summary
Somewhere out there is a murderer with over twenty killings to his name - each an apparently random slaying of a woman, over a twenty-year period and all unconnected on the police files. But Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins begins to see a pattern: he senses connections between this string of seemingly motiveless, pointless and unsolved killings.
