Haven’t read this, or any other James Ellroy for years, but heard him on the radio.
'The Black Dahlia' is, I think, the first of a tetralogy, and the easiest to read; 'The Big Nowhere' (my favourite) is the 2nd; 'LA Confidential' (a great film, but as I remember it tough to read) the 3rd and 'White Jazz' (which I have never managed to read) the last. Ellroy’s prose style veers off into total obscurity in that book.
The Black Dahlia is gruesome, but well plotted and easy to read. I had missed or forgotten the extent of the corruption that pervades the plot, which I think is a fictionalisation of his mother’s fairly gruesome death. Time to try another before too long.
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