Books like James Ellroy by Jim Mancall

James Ellroy’s hard‑boiled crime novel follows detectives as they unravel Los Angeles’s darkest mystery, the unsolved murder of the Black Dahlia, blending gritty police work with atmospheric noir.

Inside the covert world that shaped U.S. politics in the 1960s, James Ellroy follows former police and FBI officers as they navigate a web of corruption, murder, and power grabbing amid the JFK era, Bay of Pigs, and beyond.

James Ellroy’s gritty noir jazz in 1958 Los Angeles follows corrupt LAPD Lieutenant Dave Klein as federal investigators turn the city’s underworld into a deadly prison of power and betrayal.

In The Big Nowhere, three men become entangled in a vast web of ambition, perversion, and deceit amid the gritty backdrop of Los Angeles.

James Ellroy’s L.A. Confidential is a hard‑boiled crime novel set in 1950s Los Angeles, following a trio of detectives as they uncover a web of corruption and homicide within the police department.

American conspiracies collide when a Vegas cop, armed with six thousand dollars, uncovers the dark layers behind Kennedy’s assassination and the ensuing swirl of crime and politics in the 1960s.

In 1968, as conspiracies unravel and social unrest escalates, three men find themselves at the center of America's political upheaval.

After Pearl Harbor, a murder of a Japanese family in Los Angeles sets off a tense investigation that brings together a brilliant Japanese‑American forensic chemist, a daring woman, a future police chief, and a formidable villain.

Edited by Ellen Hopkins, *A New Dawn* compiles essays from bestselling YA authors that re‑examine the Twilight saga, probing character motivations, mythic parallels and cultural themes for fans and scholars alike.

A comprehensive, alphabetically ordered reference covering the history, major writers, characters, themes, and linguistic nuances of crime and mystery literature.

From Jack the Ripper to the modern day drug cartels, discover the most notorious crimes and criminals in history. With a foreword by bestselling crime author Peter James, *The Crime Book* explores over 100 crimes and examines the science, psychology and sociology of criminal behaviour. See the gory details of each crime and how it was solved, with renowned quotes and detailed criminal profiles letting you delve into the criminal mind. *The Crime Book* looks at the big ideas and concepts in criminology spanning from pirates, kidnapping and political plots to modern con artists, serial killers and rogue traders, including the Black Dahlia investigation, the Mississippi Scheme, and the notorious Jeffrey Dahmer. *The Crime Book* is the perfect introduction to law enforcement and criminology across history's most infamous crimes.