In my opinion "My Dark Places" is James Elroy's best work. I
liked "The Black Dahlia" but found his other stuff,
particularly "LA Confidential" very disappointing. How often
has it been that we like a movie far better than the book on
which it is based?
Brian
At 04:47 PM 5/15/02 +0100, you wrote:
>For me, "The Last Coyote" is the best Michael
Connelly by some distance.
>It's the one where Bosch opens the "cold" file on his
prostitute mother's
>killing (I read somewhere that, because of the
obvious parallels to Ellroy's
>real life, Connelly asked for - and received -
Ellroy's blessing to use that
>particular plotline). It's languid, almost lazy style
(the opposite of
>Ellroy's bullet verb-driven style), works
brilliantly.
>
>Al Guthrie
>
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