Based on a real, unsolved case, this is a dark and disturbing journey into the underbelly of 1940s Los Angeles.

Ex-boxers turned cops, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, become obsessed with the brutal murder of Elizabeth Short, a young aspiring actress known as the "Black Dahlia."

Ellroy's novel is a sprawling, complex, and violent exploration of ambition, corruption, and the dark side of Hollywood dreams.

It's a graphic and disturbing portrait of obsession, perversion and moral decay.

Prepare for a descent into a world of noir, presented in a distinctive staccato prose.