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Brown's Requiem

  • Imprint: Windmill Books

  • ISBN: 9780099558873

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 181g

  • RRP: £9.99

Brown's Requiem

Los Angeles – Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossessions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy 'Fat Dog' Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man.

This is the beginning of the nightmare: the underworld of golf caddies, arson and incest played against the backdrop of an LA surreal by night and bad by day; of long-hidden secrets that will drive Brown back to the bottle and to the gun: all conspire to make this one of the most hypnotic crime novels ever written.

  • Imprint: Windmill Books

  • ISBN: 9780099558873

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 181g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • The man who calls himself the "demon dog" of American crime fiction is still the classiest act around.

    Daily Mail

  • The outstanding American crime writer of his generation.

    Independent

  • Ellroy is a master at juggling plot lines, using a stripped, spare noir style that hits like a cleaver but is honed like a scalpel

    Chicago Tribune

  • An undeniably artful frenzy of violence, guilt and unappeased self-loathing. Ellroy's crime fiction represents a high mark in the genre

    New York Newsday

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About the Author

James Ellroy

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. 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 lives in Colorado.

James Ellroy

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Events

James Ellroy in conversation, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 27 May 2019

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