James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem (UK 2012)

From the Publisher:
Los Angeles - Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossessions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy 'Fat Dog' Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man.

This is the beginning of the nightmare: the underworld of golf caddies, arson and incest played against the backdrop of an LA surreal by night and bad by day; of long-hidden secrets that will drive Brown back to the bottle and to the gun: all conspire to make this one of the most hypnotic crime novels ever written.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem. Windmill Books, ISBN: 9780099558873 (November, 2012), 256 p., £8.99.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
Fritz Brown's L.A. -- and his life -- are masses of contradictions, like stirring chorales sung for the dead. A less-than-spotless former cop with a drinking problem -- a private eye-cum-repo man with a taste for great music -- he has been known to wallow in the grime beneath the Hollywood glitter. But Fritz Brown's life is about to change, thanks to the appearance of a racist psycho who flashes too much cash for a golf caddie and who walked away clean from a multiple murder rap. Reopening this cas could be Fritz's redemption; his welcome back to a moral world and his path to a pure and perfect love. But to get there, he must make it through a grim, lightless place where evil has no national borders; where lies beget lies and death begets death; where there's little tolerance for Bach or Beethoven and deadly arson is a lesser mortal sin; and where a p.i.'s unhealthy interest in the past can turn beautiful music into funeral dirge.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem. Avon Twilight, ISBN: 0380731770 (October, 1998), 248 p., $13.99.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem (UK 1995)

From the Publisher:
Los Angeles - Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossessions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy 'Fat Dog' Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man.

This is the beginning of the nightmare: the underworld of golf caddies, arson and incest played against the backdrop of an LA surreal by night and bad by day; of long-hidden secrets that will drive Brown back to the bottle and to the gun: all conspire to make this one of the most hypnotic crime novels ever written.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem. Arrow, ISBN: 0099649012 (September, 1995), 255 p., £6.99.