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iggy63 's review for:
The Black Dahlia
by James Ellroy
As noir as it gets. Ellroy's unrelenting vision of post-war LA and his take on the famously unsolved Black Dahlia murder is angry, dark, graphic and nihilistic. This is bleak world we enter, where even the crime fighters are not immune to the lure of LA's underbelly. I felt like Ellroy nailed the setting, slang and general ambiance of late 40's LA, and did a good job of intertwining facts and history with his own fictitious account. Really absorbing, but not for the squeamish.