James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can't stand music, or any loud sounds. He's got a beautiful wife, but he can't get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. He's a thinking man's cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent.

Now, there's something haunting him. He sees a connection in a series of increasingly gruesome murders of women committed over a period of twenty years. To solve the case, Hopkins will dump all the rules and risk his career to make the final link and get the killer.

James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon. A Novel. Vintage, ISBN: 9781400095285 (May, 2005), 262 p., $13.95.

James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon (USA 1989)

From the Publisher:
Det. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins is the most brilliant homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department. A thinking cop in a brutal world, hunting down monsters has, for him, gone from occupational hazard to obsession.In Blood on the Moon, twenty random killings remain unconnected in police files. But Det. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins sees a pattern. In a shattering climax, cold icy intelligence and white-hot madness are pitted against each other...

James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon. Avon, ISBN: 038069851X (August, 1989), 262 p., $4.99.