Red Sheet Arrives – Freddy Otash Rides Again

My ARC of James Ellroy’s latest novel Red Sheet has arrived. I am currently reading it and it’s… well, explosive. I will be reviewing it soon, but as I am currently deep in the reading process I decided to dedicate this week’s episode of Ellroy Reads to some Hollywood tales I gleaned from Ellroy and other sources when I was writing Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy.

I’m struck by how similar the design of the front cover of Red Sheet is to the cover of Love Me Fierce in Danger. These two books look like blood brothers. While you are waiting for Red Sheet, why not treat yourself to a copy of Ellroy’s Edgar-Award winning biography. It will put everything you read in Red Sheet in context.