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Title: Chilling and coldly compelling
Review: Real horror does not shout,it whispers.Dangerous people are seldom prone to rant and rave but go about their work in silence and with an outward appearance of normality. This strikes home forcibly with Ellroy's masterly but chilly bookMartin Plunkett is a serial killer and his narrative interspersed with newspaper clippings tells of his murderous and depraved odyssey in 70's America.Evil told in the accents and tone of one recounting a trip to the shopping mall,Midway through the book Ellroy pulls a twist that throws the reader shrwedly off balance and keeps him that way throughoutI admired the book but without really liking it,maybe its that I like a moral centre to my crime writing and this is a massively amoral bookJust like the century that spawned it Ellroy's book is a fascinating,compelling thing but dont look for the easy resolution of empty comfort of the archetypal crime novelFiction as reality ,not as escapism
