Perfidia
by James Ellroy | 
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy | 
Rubbernecker
by Belinda Bauer | 
The Grifters
by Jim Thompson | 
The Winter of Frankie Machine
by Don Winslow | 
The Girls in the Water
by Victoria Jenkins | 
The Cold Six Thousand
by James Ellroy | 
Goodnight Lady
by Martina Cole | 
The Wheelman
by Duane Swierczynski | 
Fun & Games
by Duane Swierczynski | 
City Primeval
by Elmore Leonard | 
Con Law
by Mark Gimenez | 
Gangster
by Lorenzo Carcaterra | 
Galveston
by Nic Pizzolatto | 
Layer Cake
by J. J. Connolly | 
Bleed Like Me
by Cath Staincliffe | 
Saints of New York
by R. J. Ellory | 
Freaky Deaky
by Elmore Leonard | 
A Simple Act of Violence
by R. J. Ellory | 
Road Dogs
by Elmore Leonard |
Fritz Brown's L.A.--and his life--are masses of contradictions, like stirring chorales sung for the dead. A less-than-spotless former cop with a drinking problem--a private eye-cum-repo man with a taste for great music--he has been known to wallow in the grime beneath the Hollywood glitter. But Fritz Brown's life is about to change, thanks to the appearance of a racist psycho who flashes too much cash for a golf caddie and who walked away clean from a multiple murder rap. Reopening this cas could be Fritz's redemption; his welcome back to a moral world and his path to a pure and perfect love. But to get there, he must make it through a grim, lightless place where evil has no national borders; where lies beget lies and death begets death; where there's little tolerance for Bach or Beethoven and deadly arson is a lesser mortal sin; and where a p.i.'s unhealthy interest in the past can turn beautiful music into funeral dirge.