My Dark Places Mike Carey Melissa (Mel)

Melissa (Mel)

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the bestselling novelist draws on the skills he honed with nine much-admired novels to tell the story he was

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My Dark Places Mike Carey Melissa (Mel)James Ellroy's trademark is his language: it is sometimes caustically funny and always brazen. When he's hitting on all cylinders, as he is in My Dark Places, his style makes punchy rhythms out of short sentences using lingo such as "scoot" (dollar), "trim" (sex), and "brace" (to interrogate). But the premise for My Dark Places is what makes it especially compelling: Ellroy goes back to his own childhood to investigate the central mystery behind his