There are a lot of reasons not to read James Ellroy's newest novel, Perfidia — the opening shot in his proposed second L.A. Quartet. It's a long and sprawling book with about a million pages and ...

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 murder of ...

The time frame allows Ellroy to bring back literally dozens of characters, major and minor, from the earlier novels. Many of them, we already know, will come to bad ends as their fictional futures ...

James Ellroy has spent half his career—the more successful, more engaging half—on a pair of fantastic series: the L.A. Quartet and the Underworld, USA Trilogy, both of which draw fictionalized ...

This has certainly been a phenomenal journey but if things stay the way they are, "Perfidia" will be the last episode of Journeyman. Thankfully, Kevin Falls had the foresight to reshape the final ...

Perfidia is the object of desire for Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn's characters, Bob Ferguson and Steven Lockjaw, respectively Since the film has premiered, some critics have argued that Perfidia is ...