La colección de los tulipanes negros

Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood. She starts many investigations, but never finishes any because she hands her cases over to the detectives who work the day shift. Once a rising star in the police department, she received this assignment after accusing a superior of sexual harassment. One evening, she is given two cases she doesn't want to let go of: a brutal beating of a prostitute who is left for dead and the murder of a waiter during a shootout at a night club. Against orders and the her partner's wishes, she continues to investigate after her shift ends. As she delves...

The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from Americas capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as states evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the James Ellroy brand of mayhem, machismo, and hollow-nose prose. Here are Mexican featherweights and unsolved-murder vics, crooked cops and a very clean D.A. Here is a profile of Hollywoods latest celebrity perp-walker, Robert Blake, and three new novellas featuring a demented detective with an obsession with a Hollywood...

Un llibre sincer que ens aboca a un món terriblement brèvol en què els fantasmes familiars del passat entronquen amb les obsessions personals del present. «La follia i l’horror m’havien obsedit sempre», va escriure Emmanuel Carrère per presentar Una novel·la russa, publicada originalment el 2007. «Els meus llibres no parlaven d’altra cosa. Després de L’adversari, ja no podia més. Vaig voler escapar-ne, i vaig creure que me’n sortiria: estimava una dona i havia engegat una nova investigació. La investigació era sobre el meu avi matern, que després d’una vida tràgica...

Una gran empresa te busca la pareja ideal a través de la informática. Pero se producen una serie de suicidios inexplicables. A los ojos de todo el mundo, los Thorpe eran la pareja perfecta: jóvenes, atractivos, totalmente compatibles... Sus vidas se habían cruzado gracias a la ayuda de Eden, una prestigiosa empresa dedicada a la búsqueda de la pareja ideal y que guarda celosamente la fórmula secreta que garantiza el éxito. Sin embargo, a la repentina y misteriosa muerte de los Thorpe le siguen otras, al parecer todas ellas suicidios. A Richard Silver, brillante fundador de la próspera ...