Although not taking up a lot of pages, a traumatic experience
in Lloyd Hopkins's childhood plays a crucial role in
explaining the character in Ellroy's Blood on the Moon.
Similarly, everything in Denise Mina's Garnethill stems from
the lead character's memories of childhood and her family's
reaction to her bringing them out in to the open. It just
occurred to me that she could be a character from a Lew
Archer novel, but without Archer.
Mark
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