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James Ellroy, author of This Storm

It is January 1942. Torrential rainstorms hit L.A. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops rate it a routine dead-man job. They're grievously wrong. It's a summons to misalliance and all the spoils of a brand-new war. Elmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. He's a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, caught up in the maelstrom of the Japanese internment. Dudley Smith is an LAPD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He's gone rogue and gone all-the-way Fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue.

Week of May 25, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of May 25th include THIS TENDER LAND by William Kent Krueger, a magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the early years of the Great Depression that shines new light on a pivotal time in American history; Melanie Benjamin's MISTRESS OF THE RITZ, a captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II, while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Paris; INLAND, a stunning tale of perseverance from Téa Obreht, the bestselling author of THE TIGER'S WIFE --- an epic journey across an unforgettable landscape of magic and myth; THE SENTENCE IS DEATH, the sequel to Anthony Horowitz's brilliantly inventive THE WORD IS MURDER, a mystery that delves deep into the killing of a high-profile divorce lawyer and the death, only a day earlier, of his one-time friend; and MET HER MATCH by Jude Deveraux, which examines the tensions between the wealthy townspeople, the summer vacationers and the working-class people who keep the town of Summer Hill, Virginia, and its resort running.