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From the author of L.A. Confidential comes My Dark Places, an investigative autobiography by James Ellroy. In 1958, Ellroys mother, Jean, was raped, killed, and dumped off a road in El Monte, California, a rundown L.A. suburb. The killer was never found, and the case was closed. It was a sordid, back-page homicide that no one remembered. Except her son.James Ellroy was ten years old when his mother died. His bereavement was complex and ambiguous: I cried. I cranked tears out all the way to L.A. I hated her. I hated El Monte. Some unknown killer just bought me a brand-new beautiful life. He grew up obsessed with murdered women and crime. He ran from his mothers ghost.Ellroy became a writer of radically provocative and bestselling crime novels. I wear obsession well, he says. Ive turned it into something. He tried to reclaim his mother through fiction. It didnt work. He quit running and wrote this memoir.My Dark Places is Jean and James Ellroys story—from 1958 to all points past and up to this moment. It is the story of a brilliant homicide detective named Bill Stoner and of the investigation he and Ellroy undertook. It is also an unflinching autobiography with vivid reportage. This is James Ellroys journey through his most forbidding memories.