Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins Blood on the Moon, Book 1, (Paperback)

from AlleyCat07

I almost stopped reading this book. The writing style is quite strange. I finished , perhaps, 40% of the book and was just about to stop reading it when it finally got on track. Nevertheless, the style of writing was wandering and the character behavior and dialog quite strange. This is the first...

from sweetiegherkin

A man has been brutally murdering women over many years and getting away with it because no one has ever connected the deaths as each murder is quite different from the last. But police detective Lloyd Hopkins notices something at one wrongful death that leads him to connecting the pieces. Can he...

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When James Ellroy wrote his third novel, he was a long way from developing the unique skills that makes his later fiction so compelling. "Blood on the Moon" is interesting as the work of a fascinating writer in embryo; it's not interesting or rewarding in its own right. The trouble is in his char...

from ozzieslim

If you are an Ellroy fan, you will probably notice his style in this the first of the "Lloyd Hopkins" books. Set in the seedy parts of Los Angeles Lloyd Hopkins is a hard boiled detective. The whole tone of the book is noir and Ellroy has a style of writing that is very visceral - it drives home ...