Suicide Hill
Author | James Ellroy |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy |
Genre | Novel, crime fiction |
Publisher | The Mysterious Press |
Publication date | 1987 |
Media type | |
Pages | 280 pp |
ISBN | 978-0-445-40852-4 (first edition, hardcover) |
OCLC | 44621655 |
Preceded by | Because the Night (novel) (1984) |
Followed by | Killer on the Road (1986) |
Suicide Hill is a crime fiction novel written by James Ellroy.[1] Released in 1986, it is the third and final installment of the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy.[2]
Plot summary
The novel begins a psychiatrist's assessment recommending that Hopkins be immediately retired from duty with a full pension following the events of Because the Night (1984).
Hopkins eludes compulsory retirement with attachment as LAPD liaison officer to an FBI bank robbery investigation. Hopkins then manipulates his way into robbery/homicide investigations. The novel's story line and characters twist and turn.
References
- ↑ Suicide Hill by James Ellroy, Kirkus Reviews, April 17, 1986, retrieved 2013-02-14.
- ↑ Dennis Lehane (September 4, 2014). "The Big Sweep - James Ellroy’s ‘Perfidia’". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
External links
- review from goodreads.com
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