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L.A. Kwartet Reeks

Deze serie duikt in de rauwe onderbuik van Los Angeles in de jaren '40 en '50. Het volgt met elkaar verbonden verhalen die diepgewortelde misdaad en corruptie blootleggen. Elk deel introduceert nieuwe personages, maar ze zijn allemaal verbonden door de verstikkende sfeer van de naoorlogse metropool. Het is een rauwe kijk op misdaad, moreel verval en de menselijke natuur in de stad der engelen.

Zwartboek L.A.
L. A. Confidential
The big nowhere
The Black Dahlia

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  1. The Black Dahlia

    • 384bladzijden
    • 14 uur lezen

    Los Angeles, 1th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in helf. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life. The first part of Ellroy's crime fiction masterwork, the LA Quartet, and based around a real murder case, The Black Dahlia pulses with violence, darkness and brutality. It is crime writing at its most powerful.

    The Black Dahlia1
    3,8

  2. The big nowhere

    From the widely acclaimed author of" L.A. Confidential" comes the absorbing story of three man caught in a massive web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. ""The Big Nowhere" "makes you feel as if you are really in the Hollywood of 1950".--"The Wall Street Journal".

    The big nowhere2
    4,1

  3. L. A. Confidential

    "L.A. is a city where it's hard to tell the good guys from the bad. At Central Police Station, Christmas 1951, cops beat up six suspects. This will change the careers of the three LAPD detectives involved"--http://trove.nla.gov.au

    L. A. Confidential3
    4,1

  4. Zwartboek L.A.

    • 399bladzijden
    • 14 uur lezen

    Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire. Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat," and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it's dues time. Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive. Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering. From the Trade Paperback edition.

    Zwartboek L.A.4
    4,0