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  • Occasionally crosses the line from crime drama to grotesque. There are some mentally-jarring scenes in here that actually kept me up at night out of fear of intense nightmares. Psychologically scorching, could possibly be considered historical fiction a la Caleb Carr but with far more focus on death ... Continue

    Occasionally crosses the line from crime drama to grotesque. There are some mentally-jarring scenes in here that actually kept me up at night out of fear of intense nightmares. Psychologically scorching, could possibly be considered historical fiction a la Caleb Carr but with far more focus on death, obsession, and possession. Not for the faint of heart.

    

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Bonus feature includes an original afterword by James Ellroy, titled "Hillikers," read by Stephen Hoye.

On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a 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. 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 girl’s twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches–into a region of total madness.

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