James Ellroy “Perfidia“

Readers of Ellroy’s previous L.A. quartet crime novels will recognize the unsavory Dudley Smith and the somewhat cryptic Kay Lake, who here join future L.A. police chief William Parker and the force’s Japanese crime-scene specialist, Hideo Ashida, to investigate the deaths of four members of the Watanabe family just days before Pearl Harbor is attacked. Are the two events related? Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics & Pr