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My Dark Places
My Dark Places
Author: James Ellroy
"Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant." — --Philadelphia Inquirer — In 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 cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years runn...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679762058
ISBN-10: 0679762051
Publication Date: 8/19/1997
Pages: 427
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 21 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Helpful Score: 2
An absolutely haunting book by one of the most brilliant crime writers around, James Ellroy. Ellroy goes back in time and back to Los Angeles to ivestigate the murder of his own mother.
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

"Both a harrowing autobiography and a disturbingly fixated love story blunt, graphic, and oddly exhilarating." San Francisco Chronicle
AnaLiss avatar reviewed My Dark Places on + 6 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Wow! James Ellroy really opened himself and his personal life for all to see. Excellent, excellent book.
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One of my favorite crime novels.
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