The Hilliker Curse

The publisher calls this "a raw, brutally candid memoir" about an obsessive search for "atonement in women"—but what else would you expect from the author of The Black Dahlia and American Tabloid? Prepare yourself for another sinister literary seduction by James Ellroy.

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