The author of L.A. Confidential continues his reign over crime fiction with the story--based on a real-life case--of two Los Angeles policemen whose search for the killer of a beautiful woman leads them through the underworld of postwar Hollywood. Reissue. (A Universal Pictures film, written by Josh Friedman, directed by Brian DePalma, releasing October 2006, starring Hilary Swank, Scarlett Johansson, & Josh Hartnett) (Mystery) The murder of a beautiful young woman in 1947 Los Angeles sparks an investigation in which Bucky Bleichert, Lee Blanchard, L.A.P.D. Warrants Squad cops, ex-boxers, friends, and adversaries become obsessed by the case. The highly acclaimed novel based on Americas most infamous unsolved murder case. Dive into 1940s Los Angeles as two cops spiral out of control in their hunt for The Black Dahlias killer in this powerful thriller that is brutal and at the same time believable (New York Times). On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia -- and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history. Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia -- driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girls twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches -- into a region of total madness.
