That's the merest outline of "Perfidia," the new novel by James Ellroy, which aims to tell the story of these 23 days in L.A. in real time and set the stage for the eventual reformation of the LAPD.

James Ellroy is the Los Angeles-based author of 19 books, including "The Black Dahlia," "L.A. Confidential" and "Perfidia" (Knopf), coming out Tuesday. He spoke with Marc Myers. The unsolved ...

In "Perfidia," the opening volume of a projected Second L.A. Quartet, Ellroy moves backward in time to a crucial historical moment, beginning his sprawling narrative on Dec. 6, 1941, one day ...

With Perfidia, the first in a planned Second L.A. Quartet, Ellroy moves back in time to 1941, to Los Angeles in the very first days of World War II. The book's plot is set in headlong motion by ...

A self-absorbed, low-rent wheeler-dealer tries to motivate his gumptionless son in Bonifacio Angius’ monotonous drama “Perfidia.” Set in the dullest outskirts of the Sardinian city of ...

Perfidia is billed as the start of a second L.A. Quartet, this one a chronicle of the 1940s. Ellroy can’t give up the quest to reanimate the place, and the past, where his mother lived and died.

As is the case in all Ellroy’s work there is no moral centre to Perfidia, no certainty of any kind Doug Johnstone Friday 12 September 2014 17:13 BST 0 Comments ...

Perfidia is a sprawling novel that takes place in 1940s LA. There are Pearl Harbor, internment camps, schemes within schemes. Ellroy weaves an epic tale that evokes an ugly time and an awful place.