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 ...

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 ...

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 author talks about his work, his youth, his solitude and his 14th novel, a World War II tale: "It's more accessible, more human and has more heart and soul than all of my other books combined" By ...

A self-absorbed, low-rent wheeler-dealer tries to motivate his gumptionless son in Bonifacio Angius’ monotonous drama “Perfidia.” Set in the dullest outskirts of the Sardinian city of Sassari, the pic ...

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 ...