{"product_id":"my-dark-places-a-true-crime-autobiography-9780679762058","title":"My Dark Places: A True Crime Autobiography","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running. He went back to L.A., to find out the truth about his mother--and himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMy Dark Places\u003c\/i\u003e, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the L.A. Quartet: \u003ci\u003e The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhite Jazz, \u003c\/i\u003eand the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: \u003ci\u003eAmerican Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBlood's A Rover.\u003c\/i\u003e These seven novels have won numerous honors and were international best sellers. He is also the author of two collections, \u003ci\u003eCrime Wave\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDestination: Morgue!\u003c\/i\u003e and two memoirs \u003ci\u003eMy Dark Places\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Hilliker Curse\u003c\/i\u003e. Ellroy currently lives in Denver, Colorado. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewww.jamesellroy.net \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51649028325650,"sku":"9780679762058","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_df4cfd4e-d4d5-406c-be97-953f4e72b6a0.jpg?v=1759843242","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-dark-places-a-true-crime-autobiography-9780679762058","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}